The Green Party’s reward for climate action? Electoral evisceration
Instead of sitting on the Opposition benches and making political capital by ridiculing the government on its dire environmental performance, The Greens entered government because, as Roderic O’Gorman noted, 'you get political capital and you spend it'. File photo: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie
The Greens are dead. Long live the Greens. There’s a saying in Irish politics that no good deed goes unpunished. The Green Party’s reward for a broadly successful and highly influential four-and-a-half years in government has been electoral evisceration.
After a surprisingly harmonious three-way working relationship, it became clear in the run-up to this election that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil were prepared to ruthlessly abandon their erstwhile junior partner while using them as a lightning rod to deflect public anger away from themselves.
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