Government reform: A New Politics? Pull the other one

The Imma affair has thrown into sharp relief the glorious aspirations for government reform and transparency trumpeted by Fine Gael in its New Politics document, writes Michael Clifford.

THESE boys were going to clean up Dodge.

On 22 March 2010, Fine Gael launched what it described as the “most ambitious proposals for political reform since the 1930s”. It was a high old time for reformers.