Irish Examiner view: A chance to strengthen political relationships

This week’s quickly deleted tweet from Laois/Offaly TD Brian Stanley is the latest provocation.

Any serious politician understands the choreography of condemnation yet very few have a real opportunity to reach beyond that hope-draining knock-and-drag. 

All too often condemnation stands where there should be an exchange that encourages one tribe or another to bend so progress might be made. This week, the condemnation two-step arrived with the sorry predictability of a Christmas pantomime.