Five pressing tasks will ensure no honeymoon for new Cabinet

POLITICIANS campaign in poetry and govern in prose, as the old dictum goes.

After spinning some great election-time rhetoric about how they’ll fix a broken country, Fine Gael has immediately set about offering a starker message about the enormous challenges facing the country.

The government that will be elected to the Dáil on March 9 faces more spending cuts, more money for the banks and other unpopular decisions at the mercy of its EU-IMF paymasters.