Shifting the blame

I’VE read some peculiar attempts to shift the blame for failure in my time, but rarely so far in advance of the end of the contest.

The Taoiseach’s claim that the onus for the success of the Lisbon Treaty was on Fine Gael rather than the Government takes the biscuit. Just recall the amount of time Fianna Fáil could have spent addressing real concerns about the treaty instead of conducting a swansong for its outgoing leader, while telling anyone who had real concerns they were ‘lulas’ only interested in making a holy show of us. And the party would also have entrusted a leading role in the campaign to someone other than the European Affairs minister who can have converted few floaters to the yes side.

Daniel K Sullivan