Browned off

It never fails to amaze me how a supposedly pragmatic and enterprise-driven newspaper allows Vincent Browne his vacuous and jaundiced rant every Sunday.

Browne descends further into cynical navel-gazing each week, and in particular he ceases to have any grasp on reality when writing about the Progressive Democrats.

Last week, he seemed to make the wonderful jewel of an observation that if Mary Harney's record in Health turns out to be the same ...