Time for radical reform, action and the truth

IT IS fascinating to watch the unfolding of a left/right debate taking centre stage in the earliest stages of the campaign.

It surely marks a watershed in the political life of the country to find that all of the main parties, FF, FG, Lab, along with the Greens, are sounding off in broad harmony against the fiery dialectic of Sinn Féin and Pearse Doherty, in particular.

No doubt, we are seeing something of the political convulsion that led to Leftist takeovers of countries around the globe in the twentieth century where the established political enclaves had become distanced from the needs and wishes of the people they served.