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Tue 10 Oct 2009Green Party obliterated by great Nama denial
The nice gestures in the programme for government are trifling compared with the absurdities it supports
ONE OF the nice things about writing a column in Ireland is that you don’t have to work very hard for your metaphors. If you wanted to encapsulate the death of the Green Party in a little moral tale, you’d be hard put to come up with a better one than John Gormley’s ostentatiously eco-friendly trip to the UK on the ferry, after which he was picked up by a limo that drove from London to Holyhead at a cost of €2,200. If you think of the ferry as Green principles and the limo as Fianna Fáil culture, you have a perfect image for the charade that was played out at the weekend.
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