The Greens have made a big mistake: they’ve won office but lost power

I have no doubt the Greens decided to go into government for good and honourable reasons, but they will achieve no real goals.

And as a consequence, the very things they believe in most will be set back and they themselves, as a party, will suffer

NOEL BROWNE once said that the moment you enter a coalition, you must start thinking about how to bring it down. The remark was seized on by his enemies as proof that he was nothing more than a maverick. But there was more than a grain of truth in what he said.