Irish Examiner View: A welcome embrace of State's obligations

A shift on childcare and housing?

Minister for Housing Darragh O'Brien plans to restrict further co-living developments. Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

As the unmentionable's tenancy at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue moves towards its welcome denouement and as that tenant tells lie after lie to bequeath an anti-democratic legacy of distrust, dishonesty and disruption, Joe Biden's Democratic party begins to focus on its own deep divisions. 

Whether the Democrats can, now that their particular dragon has been given the St George treatment, sustain the unity needed to deliver the promises made during their election remains to be seen. That party is, because of the challenge America and the world faced, an especially broad church.