Gerard Howlin: Sinn Féin, expecting opposition, is unprepared for government
Sinn Féin has patented the word ‘change’. But it can’t be delivered in the terms promised, writes
IN the by-election that elected a young Enda Kenny in 1975, then Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader, Liam Cosgrave, led him into Ballinrobe at night, their way lit by petrol-soaked sods of turf carried on pitchforks. The acolytes, as told in John Downing’s biography of Kenny, were the Fine Gael faithful.
