Irish Examiner editorial comment: FG/Labour deal - Compromise is the name of the game

POLITICS they say is the art of compromise.

So, nobody should be surprised that compromise is the central tread of the Programme for Government produced by Fine Gael and Labour.

Despite having a huge majority in Dáil Éireann, the bitter irony of being forced to wear a tailor-made strait-jacket, hand-stitched in advance by Fianna Fáil, has made compromise the inevitable outcome of negotiations during the past week.