Aoife Moore: Campaigning on Ceta has come back to haunt Greens

A High Court challenge over the constitutionality of Ceta by a Green Party TD is yet more proof the leadership can't get its TDs in line

Happier days: Neasa Hourigan and Eamon Ryan at the party's general election manifesto launch in January 2020. Picture: Caroline Quinn/PA Wire

If there was ever a perfect illustration of the state of the Green parliamentary party, it's the fact that Eamon Ryan wasn't present at the meeting when one of his own TDs informed the rest of the party that he was taking the Government, in which they all sit, to court.

The bold Patrick Costello has taken up the mantle from the bold Neasa Hourigan as the newest pain in the neck for the three-headed Government.