Coalition let down by broken promises and campaign lies

EXHORTING the people to throw away their auld cynicism about politics before the last general election, Labour leader Eamon Gilmore promised that, this time, it would be different.

“Ní neart, go cur le chéile — together, le chéile, as one Ireland, there is no problem that we cannot confront,” he trilled, on February 23, just two days before polling.

A Labour government, he insisted, could be trusted to implement the pre-election policies and promises that it had solemnly made to the Irish people.