No red-letter day for Greens and their allies « Tribune – Labour leadership gossip, news, features and comment from Britain's left-wing magazine

No red-letter day for Greens and their allies « Tribune – Labour leadership gossip, news, features and comment from Britain's left-wing magazine: "In the Republic of Ireland, the Greens have been instrumental in preserving an unpopular right-wing government in office, in exchange for the chance to run the "occasional environmental project". The Greens are propping up a discredited administration which has been attempting to pin the blame for the financial crisis on the public sector and those who rely on social security. For the talk of a “Green new deal”, nothing could be further from the expansive and imaginative plans of Franklin D Roosevelt than the cravenly neo-liberal approach adopted by Ireland’s Green-backed government"