What do our politicians not want us to know?

THERE are many people who would say that Michael Noonan has always failed to inspire, despite all his guff.

That number is surely increasing by the day as people across the country begin to realise that Fine Gael, and Michael Noonan and his ministerial colleagues in particular, have almost totally morphed into the Son of Fianna Fáil. It wasn’t even a gradual process — its seeds became evident within days of this new government being elected.

Each week brings us another manifestation of this government’s total inability to be true to the commitments that both parties made in the pre-election period and in the election campaign itself.