FF is increasingly indistinguishable from the PDs

I MUST comment on your editorial (Wednesday, May 9) verdict on this successive term in office of the Fianna Fáil/PD coalition and the state of the nation for 2003: “The sick are being told to endure their infirmities and the electorate is being screwed

Sat, 10 May, 2003 - 01:00

the most dishonest and disreputable Government that this country has had to endure since the foundation of the State.”

I am not particularly a Fianna Fáil supporter, but Carlow/Kilkenny FF TD John McGuinness is right in his own similar recent observations about Fianna Fáil leaving its traditional support behind and becoming almost indistinguishable these days from its Coalition partner, the Progressive Democrats, who are like a hive that has successfully colonised its host.

So much so, that Fianna Fáil's Finance Minister, Charlie McCreevy, could comfortably move over and join them. He is now so right-wing that I am not surprised that he and Health Minister Micheál Martin are increasingly finding it hard to tango no singing duets here!