Has the Crisis Killed an Irish Party?

IS IT possible that the party ultimately to be decimated arising from the present economic crisis will not be Fianna Fáil but Fine Gael? There is growing evidence to support this ostensibly counter-intuitive proposition.

Nine months ago, in the wake of the general election, it would have taken a brave and perhaps stoned analyst to make such a prediction. The conventional wisdom was that the FF brand had become “toxic” to the point of culture-shock.