Options are limited in this mess of the Government’s own making

Just how did we come to this point, asks Daniel McConnell

We stand at the precipice of the first all-out industrial action by the country’s police force and, if it goes ahead, it will mark a dangerous precedent.

The practicality of not having any officers on duty on Friday is a frightening prospect and Fine Gael’s Leo Varadkar was right when he said it would change the view of the force.