John O'Donoghue (Kerry South, Fianna Fail)

That was only the first sentence.

The remnants of the rainbow coalition government, the constituent parts of which include old Labour, the retired revolutionaries of the Democratic Left and the battered survivors of Fine Gael's last debacle, are joined today by the Green Party and "whatever you're having yourself" in an attempt at the greatest public deception since the foundation of the State.

They say they will replace the Government's policies with their own but they will not say what they are. They say they have a different vision for the country, but they will not say what it is. They say they can do things better, but they will not say how they will do it. They say that they know what they are doing, but they are the only ones saying that.

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