WHAT an utter contradiction it is that the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize has been given to US President Barack Obama who recently made a much criticised decision to send a further 30,000 human beings to kill or be killed in an increasingly futile war in Afghanistan.

THE Greens have shown themselves to be not only ‘flaky’, but utterly naive and inept in their negotiations with the wily Fianna Fáilers and, worse than that, just as unprincipled and hypocritical as their new masters.