Greens’ programme - A wonderful opportunity was wasted

LAST week President Barack Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize more for what he might achieve than for what he has done.

Last Saturday the 650 or so Green Party members who attended their in-or-out conference in Dublin adopted the same crystal-ball principle and voted to stay in Government.

They did so because they were seduced by a party leadership determined to stay in power and a peerless siren call from a Fianna Fáil administration stuck on the lowest popularity ratings in their party’s history.