Elaine Loughlin: Freewheeling Eamon Ryan happy not to play the politics game

Quiet messaging by the Greens, if you can even call it messaging, is at odds with all other political parties and Independents, who as the general election draws nearer will be battling to drown each other out

From left: Jack Chambers, Minister of State at the Department of Transport; Transport Minister Eamon Ryan, and NTA deputy chief executive Hugh Creegan at an announcement in February about new active travel funding for local authorities.

After four years in Government, the Green Party still hasn’t figured out how the scheming world of politics works and believes the fantasy that hard work alone gets you elected.

If that were the case, we might have a very different Dáil than the current make-up.