Irish Examiner View: Greens in Coalition talks - Scare tactics

Political dialogue is often weaponised to obfuscate and sown uncertainty.

Green Party leader Eamon Ryan outside Leinster House

Political dialogue is often weaponised to obfuscate andsow uncertainty. That process, that application of the frightners is well under way as the Greens, despite deep and valid reservations, enter talks to try to form a coalition government.

Tánaiste Simon Coveney has promised he will not stand over the “decimation” of family farms by Green policies. Others warn that the Greens will “destroy rural Ireland”.