Croke Park deal - What price picket line peace?

Despite official government insistence to the contrary, the drum beats are getting louder for an attack on the Croke Park Agreement.

The latest opinion-gathering exercise points to a mood among the Coalition’s grassroots to renegotiate the deal’s core promise not to cut public sector pay.

That the survey was carried out by a Fine Gael senator is revealing, although Catherine Noone has undoubtedly been hearing the rumblings from her constituents in the Seanad’s industrial and commercial panel as much as the grumbling of her local authority colleagues.