Medical cards could badly burn Coalition

It is almost a year ago — when this newspaper first started reporting the removal of discretionary medical cards — that a former Labour politician observed it was the "third rail issue" of Irish politics.

Medical cards could badly burn Coalition

The term is used to describe an issue that is as charged as a high-voltage power cable — touch it and get singed.

There were plenty of warnings for this Government, from the experience of its predecessors that medical cards fall into this politically untouchable category.

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