Nothing is ever normal in politics

Political Editor Mary Regan on the Cabinet to lead the country into "more normal times".

AFTER walking his new line up into the Dáil chamber at lunchtime yesterday, the Taoiseach made the great big promise to the people of Ireland, that this is the Cabinet which will lead the country into “more normal times”.

And so it was, a new Cabinet not exactly designed to be the fresh-faced, dynamic or revolutionary answer to pulling this Government out of a disastrous spell and setting a different agenda for the 18 months left in office.