Greens in government might as well join PDs

WHEN the Green party joined the negotiations for government after the general election last May, they went to Fianna Fáil with the intention of getting everything that was in their manifesto adopted as government policy.

When they entered government they might as well have joined the PDs.

Prior to the election the Greens were opposed to hospital co-location, waste incineration, a motorway through Tara, US troops in Shannon and the Corrib gas field being built inshore.