IN recent weeks, Fianna Fáil luminaries from Seamus Brennan to Brian Cowen have scolded the opposition for making wide-ranging commitments on tax reform and public services, accusing them of engaging in ‘auction politics’.

OVER the next few weeks, we will have to listen to a lot of legal, constitutional and technical arguments about the merits and demerits of holding another boundary revision in advance of the next general election.

THE general election is about a year away. However, we have already witnessed the first round of auction politics in the shape of the PDs’ tax proposals.

TWO armed gardaí, one of whom was drinking on the job, have been suspended from the force after becoming involved in a fracas outside the US embassy in Dublin.