We are paying dearly for the past and present sins of Fianna Fáil

IN going into government Green Party Leader John Gormley suggested that he and his colleagues could aptly be compared to voluntarily putting themselves in straitjackets. “Because when you are entering government,” he said, “you are entering an asylum.”

“I have no choice,” he added. “I have to act in this way.” That was what many of those who propped up the Nazis said.

Like many before him, Gormley probably got into politics with the best of intentions, but now he feels like he is in a straightjacket in an asylum.