Paul Hosford: Government painting itself into a corner with attacks on Peter McVerry

A row on the eviction ban started on the airwaves which is stoked on social media — a thoroughly modern uproar and one with no real winner.

Father Peter McVerry: “I am extremely concerned and I think this is a horror movie for all those tenants who have received a notice to quit and they are totally at a loss as to what to do."

It's not every week that the political discourse is dominated by a priest or a painting. This week, the Politics Gods blessed us with both at once.

The Government was somewhat effective in turning Sinn Féin housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin's tweet of a piece of art depicting gardaí assisting an historical eviction into a referendum on Sinn Féin's historical attitudes to the force.