Water fiasco shameful in this centenary year

Margaret Hickey argues that as usual politicians are putting their party before the country in the rush to scrap water charges that would be among the cheapest anywhere in Europe

IN THIS year of celebration of nationhood, it is both ironic and shameful that the freedom to govern ourselves ,won at such a cost, should be so lightly regarded by those to whom the people have entrusted power, following February’s election.

The power as well as the responsibility to form a government rests with elected representatives. The people neither get it right nor wrong. They vote as they always do for a multiplicity of reasons. Some voters are well informed, others not at all.