Aoife Moore: Greens should have seen the ice-berg coming

Minister for Transport and the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications Eamon Ryan TD.

In a year of much internal turbulence, it's a Christmas miracle the Greens still have the energy to fight with one another.

This week's domestic incident was around the contentious Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (Ceta) with Canada and like all major issues within the Green Party, almost no one outside of Leinster House had any idea what it was before the bill was scheduled on Tuesday.