Government report card: How has the coalition rated during its penultimate year in office?

Tánaiste Micheál Martin could be the politician of the year but Helen McEntee must do better, writes Shane Coleman

Four down, one to go. The coalition has survived its penultimate year in office – and with another bumper budget giveaway and Sinn Féin slipping slightly but steadily in the polls, perhaps it more than ‘survived’.

But, as ever in office, it’s been far from plain sailing with law and order, immigration, housing and health all ...