Cowen & Co should enjoy Fianna Fáil sensibly

THE furore over the Taoiseach’s radio interview should make us very grateful that the Green party is in government with Fianna Fáil.

For without the restraining hand of the Greens, I suspect incidents like this one would look tame indeed compared to what the larger party might be getting up to.

Thanks to the Greens, the infamous Galway tent is gone. Without them in coalition with FF, there would be many more such tents and similar dubious sources of income from which the formerly unstoppable ‘republican party’ could still be drawing solace and massive funding.