INSIDE POLITICS - OPPOSITION STRATEGY

Published: October 14, 2007, 5:03 am

Tags: irish politics, joe higgins, greens, brian lenihan, charlie flanagan, labour, fianna fail, sinn fein, enda kenny, eamon gilmore

At the end of every term, I do a simple exercise, totting up the topics that have been chosen by opposition leaders for the twice-weekly set piece Leaders' Questions.Over the last couple of years, the predictable issues have dominated - health, crime, and the Government's secret weapon of dealing with Limerick's gang culture: unleashing Willie O'Dea in the city's drinking establishment on weekend nights. The dynamic has changed this time. There are now only two leaders entitled to speak during Leaders Questions and one of them, Eamon Gilmore, is new. With the smaller parties and indepedendents having been hoovered up by Government or gobbled up by the electorate, there is no longer a technical group. There is no Joe Higgins. The Greens have forsaken tofu abstinence for meat indulgence....Enda Kenny: Pop Idol Prodigal SonINSIDE POLITICS - OPPOSITION STRATEGY Harry McGeeSee 0 more posts on this topic: Why Fine, Gael Lost, Enda Kenny, Recent Elections, Anyone StillKeywords:

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