Galway tent to K Club: the only difference between FF and FG?

POLITICAL contacts can be bought very cheaply in this country. Always has been the case and always will be, it seems, no matter what happens at tribunals and the like in exposing the carry-on between politicians and wealthy business people.

Political parties — and their members — are so desperate for cash that they’ll consort with just about anyone willing to stump up some readies.

In these recessionary times a good relationship with Fine Gael — the party that is expected to lead the next government — can be purchased for as little as €1,500, as we learned last weekend when news of that party’s golf classic at the K Club was revealed.