We don’t need another round of ‘disastrous’ Social Partnership

At the height of its pomp, Social Partnership insidiously undermined the constitutional role of the cabinet, writes Gerard Howlin

Today Ireland is gawking voyeuristically at Greece to see if it embraces enforced reform.

When the clock strikes midnight, it will either be signed-up or kicked out. The spectacle will be compelling, in the way watching people threatening to throw themselves from window ledges is.