Calm before storm of opposition’s slash and burn

IT has been an incredibly slow summer even by the standards of incredibly slow summers in which Irish politics seems to specialise.

That’s understandable. We have just been through a bruising election. It’s a bit early for the opposition to be tabling no confidence motions or talking about a tired Government that’s been in power for too long. Fianna Fáil ministers vamoosed within nanoseconds of getting their seals of office (though the anorak-in-chief had to hang around for a few weeks before being stood up by Mahon).

So as a taciturn July turns into a listless August, the only sounds that can be heard are the panting of the two Green Ministers as they furiously pedal (sic) their wares and the collective licking of wounds by the opposition.