Opposition must sort out banks policy

THE growing perception that Labour and Fine Gael are driving in opposite directions on the key issue of the banks may be the battered raft on which the current Government hopes to avoid drowning.

In 2007, a few hundred votes gave Bertie Ahern just that handful of seats necessary to enable him, rather than Enda Kenny, to cobble together this shambles of a government.

Gilmore, Kenny, Burton and Bruton must sort out this problem within days and certainly well before the last weekend before polling on June 5. And they must be seen publicly so to do.