Paul Hosford: Lampooned Greens must sell themselves to the public

Eamon Ryan has a knack for saying the wrong thing.

Eamon Ryan has an interesting knack for saying things that rile people up.

Be they rural TDs latching on to incomplete statements in order to portray the Green Party leader as aloof or out of touch with rural concerns — he insists there is no antipathy in that relationship in either direction — or people who voted for his party in 2020 and felt let down by the decision to go into government with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.