Election Crisis: Transparency would mean a painful confession

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald has cut an isolated figure in the Dáil this week, but nonetheless came out fighting for her future, writes Caroline O’Doherty

It was Renua — the fledgeling party that fluttered onto the political landscape before the last general election — that pledged ‘government in the sunshine’, but it was Fine Gael that paraded the principle when it subsequently took precarious power.

The imagery was a little flamboyant for the new programme for government so its authors stuck to the more prosaic “transparency”.