Greens are keeping a vital watch on FF

How easy it is to be cynical. I have listened to several TV and radio programmes about Defence Minister Willie O’Dea’s resignation and the theme recurs throughout: the Greens will do anything to stay in power and avoid an election.

I am not so sure about that reason for the departure of Minister O’Dea. I like to believe basic ethical teachings and beliefs about right and wrong must count for something.

Another typical reaction to the defence minister’s resignation is that he was a man of the people, that his detractors were just anti-establishment troublemakers who wanted to bring down the Government or