Drop the gavel on auction politics

THE Government and opposition parties are engaging in dangerous auctioneering politics with our money and livelihoods.

Those who remember the outrageous giveaway election promises of the 1977 Fianna Fáil government led by Jack Lynch won’t easily forget the misery it brought on the people, especially the less well-off and pensioners, over the following 15-to-20 years. It also caused tens of thousands of our young people to emigrate — some of them are still illegal immigrants in the USA.

This madness, if allowed to happen again, would cripple our economy and undermine long-term integration prospects under the new arrangements in Northern Ireland.