Ministers pose, but who has spine to make wealthy pay?

MEMO to Roisín Shortall: What’s the point in having half a spine?

The Choke Park/Hope Park* Deal (*delete according to prejudice) gets a bad rap, but it is really the poverty of political ideas and lack of a Cabinet backbone that is suffocating this country.

Shortall’s incendiary intervention into the no-confidence vote debate on James Reilly is a case in point — she made it abundantly clear she has absolutely no confidence in Reilly, explained methodically why nobody else should have any confidence in Reilly, and then did as she was told to do and voted full confidence in Reilly.