We have had more than enough of this state’s worst-ever government

DISHONEST, disloyal, destructive, disgraceful are just some of the words that can be used to describe this Government, which is unquestionably the worst that this country has had to endure since independence.

Fianna Fáil got into government on false pretences in 1997, promising to tackle the crime situation, the drug scene and the gang violence in the wake of the murder of Veronica Guerin. Now all of those are worst than ever. It has taken the Government almost 12 years to bring in legislation to cope with jury intimidation and gangland violence, and by now this cancer has spread throughout the island.

As a country that depended for so long on emigration and whose children have been welcomed around the globe, the way we treated some people who came to this country was a disgrace.