Irish Examiner view:  Dysfunctional housing crisis is our Waterloo 

Corporate interests always put before community

Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage Darragh O'Brien speaking to media outside Dublin Castle where he welcomed Cabinet approval for the publication of the Affordable Housing Bill 2021. Picture: Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie

When a history of moderate, centrist politics is written, if a publisher has not commissioned such an obituary already, there will be successes to record.

But, just as Napoleon’s biographers discovered, Waterloo cannot be glossed over.