FF-Greens: Longest Political Flirt?
Seriously, the eyes being made between FF and the Greens is even making me uncomfortable. Why don’t they just get a room and finish it? As I write, former TD Dan Boyle is speeding on the train from Cork up for final face-to-face with FF. Even Gormley is getting in on FF love. It’ll be interesting to see if FF offer more to the Greens based on their recently dispatched position document. My opinion is that if the Greens are really serious about moving onto the Government benches in Kildare Street, they will have to compromise on some of their top issues. You can’t have six or seven top-level issues that you are not willing to give ground on. I hate wedding lists with proscribed gifts. FF won’t tick off as many goodies as the Greens think they will.
The coverage on Newstalk and RTE couldn’t be different. Newstalk got a live phone from Boyle - on the spot commentary. RTE recycled some sound loops from last night’s Week In Politics with Séan O Rourke. Hardly, an up-to-date snippet. Just shows how flexible independent radio simple out-foxes the old, rumbling Morning Ireland machine.