Eighth Amendment debate will stress-test ‘new politics’

There will be justified angst about the issue of abortion again this week – and there will be phoney angst about the issue of the cabinet’s responsibility to act collectively on it.

Every time a Fine Gael minister talks to a journalist about cabinet discussions, they are breaching collective responsibility. So beware of denunciations of independent ministers who supposedly refuse to be bound by constitutional law. This is bad law, erratically applied – ...