Nothing new about the Fine Gael Árd Fheis

FOR sheer entertainment, the recent Fine Gael Árd Fheis was hard to beat.

We were told the winds of change were blowing, and even Ghandi was invoked. What we got was a policy platform that lurched awkwardly from sanitised socialism to reactionary tosh.

The word ‘new’ featured a lot. We were told it was “time for a change” and that Fine Gael would get “tough”.