THE Coalition is re-writing the dictionary.

For transparency read obfuscation, for accountability read non-responsibility, and for openness read non-communication

Not even in the Emergency did an Irish administration adopt such secrecy.

Scared by the public's thirst for information about decisions made behind closed doors, we have the unedifying spectacle of a thin-skinned Taoiseach and his cabal of Fianna Fáil and PD ministers slamming the shutters to conceal their activities.