The saga of Mary Robinson’s presidential library reflects a wider malaise in Irish public life

It could well damage her legacy

Mary Robinson: her presidential library is set to generate a tax exemption of €2 million on her future personal earningsBarbara Lindberg

Is this Groundhog Day for the “new politics”? Today’s Sunday Business Post/Red C poll confirms my thesis that Irish politics has become stuck in a depressing rut of under-performance and futility.

Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil each enjoy the support of just a quarter of the jaded, cynical electorate. Neither of them has any fundamental difference with the other. Why else would one invite the other into coalition, or the other offer to ...