Public pay disputes loom large on the horizon for the government

The year stealing away will not be widely mourned. The centenary celebrations of the Rising were thoughtful and well judged. Abroad, famine, war and migration took a terrible toll and the political reverberations from events in Britain and the US are only beginning. During the political interregnum at home, the President, Michael D Higgins, played an appropriate and dignified role in the 1916 commemorations. Eventually, we got a government with all the bells ...