Broken promises and Budget pledges go in the spin cycle

WATCH out for spin. It’s all around you. Some of our politicians have been spinning madly this past week about a whole lot of stuff that doesn’t deserve it.

It would be so much better if they just told us the truth.

First of all, Gerry Adams. I listened to him on the radio on Sunday, expressing his sympathy for Ann McCabe, the widow of the last policeman to be murdered by the IRA in Ireland. He understood what she was going through, he said, and many of his own friends and family had to go through the same thing, watching people who had killed their loved ones go free.