Irish Examiner View: Not this time for public sector deal

Michael McGrath has warned that new public sector deal may not be affordable. Photo: Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie

This can be a strange, bewildering old world. That strangeness is amplified by deepening polarisation. 

One tribe cannot tolerate the other, some barely talk so intransigence becomes stasis or confrontation. Conflict takes many forms and operates on many planes.