Opposition gains from FF Pyrrhic victory

THE devastation was of Fianna Fáil’s making and the bank bailout means the blood of the Celtic Tiger will forever stain its hands.

This was the drumbeat the Opposition marched to as they left the battlefield and conceded defeat after a two-year war to decide how the economy should be rescued.

And as they regroup their assertion that the banking bill was wracked up on Fianna Fáil’s excesses will clearly be the rallying-cry ahead of the next General Election.