Fianna Fáil reimagines the Tallaght Strategy
FF is carefully trying to sidestep the past errors of Fine Gael and Labour in its approach to the upcoming budget
Summing up the mood as the drawbacks of the Tallaght Strategy slowly dawned on his party, Garret FitzGerald - by then a Fine Gael backbencher - observed: “There seem to be two Fianna Fáil parties: Fianna Fáil in government and Fianna Fáil in opposition.”
In those days, the party to which he referred was in a minority government, led by Charles Haughey and facilitated - through the support of its budgetary and economic ...
