Who’s to blame now? The secretary general, in the office, with the letter

The Tánaiste was talking about health care when he said: “We all want to stay alive”, but he could easily have been referring to the badly wounded Coalition.

Still running scared from the chaotic way in which the now interwoven GSOC/whistleblower/ bugging/Callinan sacking controversies have been handled, Eamon Gilmore and Taoiseach Enda Kenny refused to take any questions after their bland five-minute speeches launching a “consultation” on universal health insurance.

So much for their promise to usher in a “democratic revolution”.