FF and Harkin in ‘PD-style’ Euro group

IT WAS interesting to hear over the past several years commentators from the left in Irish society almost congratulate themselves on the demise of their right-wing adversaries, the PDs.

According to their opponents, the PDs’ time had come and gone. Ireland had now matured and the aggressive free market policies that once characterised the PD manifesto would never be seen again.

Having browsed the EU’s ALDE Group website, it seems to me they have simply moved to the Brussels.