Greens compromised an election too soon

ALL compromise comes at a price and sometimes the price is too high.

In the 1960s, some Georgian buildings in Hume Street, Dublin, were to be demolished in favour of a glass greenhouse office.

Architectural students from Bolton Street college occupied them. Matters came to a crunch. The demolishers attacked. A ‘deal’ emerged, facilitated by, among others, the late George Colley, soul-guide to what were later the PDs.