Strikes: Public service stands up for a new pay deal

NO SOONER was the Garda strike called off late on Thursday than we heard the stampede of other public-service workers demanding equal treatment.

The genie is now very much out of the bottle and it is safe to say that the Lansdowne Road Agreement is dead.

Having been the only show in town for so long, its premature demise was a sign of how weak this minority government is and why it really should be put out of its misery.