Labour will struggle to get voters to taste their recipe a second time

The promises of the 2011 election were universally broken, so we should be sceptical about claims that the universal social charge will be cut and the social welfare Christmas bonus and carer grant will be restored, says Political Reporter Juno McEnroe

Politicians and pie-crusts are made to be broken, said Jonathan Swift.

And boy are Labour leader Joan Burton and her party piling up the goodies to sweeten voters ahead of the general election.