Daniel McConnell: Another day, another u-turn for government

The issue of overseas holidays and PUP recipients got the government in a tangle. Photo: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

Another day, another u-turn - and you know things are bad when even your u-turns are not stopping political landmines.

On Monday, the government u-turned and announced it was taking a 10% cut in pay, only for it to emerge they were still better off than ministers in the last government.