Kenny must take new approach to deliver on passionate commitments

Calm please. Don’t lose the run of yourselves. Less happened last weekend than may be imagined.

The Seanad is saved, but that is small beer. We would have been worse off without it. The real risk was losing permanently any prospect of a really reformed political process. Getting rid of the Seanad would have said to the Government – ‘get on with it lads, yis are doing all right.’ Last Friday’s decision means their card is marked. It’s not all right. Will it make a positive difference? Let’s wait and see.

On second thought let’s not wait. And let’s not wait and see if somebody else will step up to the plate instead. We can actually do something about this ourselves; democracy matters. Part of the pickle the Government has gotten into is that it has become so steeped in the processes of government that it became anesthetised to the fact that back in real life, democracy does matter.