The Greens’ decision to go for the nuclear option last Monday should not have come as such a shock.
Perhaps we were distracted by the enormity of what had happened in the previous seven days, culminating in Brian Cowen and Brian Lenihan announcing that a Fianna Fáil-led government was about to sell our sovereignty.
Until recent weeks, the official Green line was that the government had a mandate (from the Oireachtas, not...
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