The Worst Opposition In Dáil History

Fair play to them for being so incompetent.

I will not bore you to tears with a history of opposition parties since the state's founding. I’ll leave that to more learned academics than I, not that this author can claim to be learned or academic. But I do have some observations about the current state of the opposition in the 34th Dáil.

The opposition of the 34th Dáil is made of Sinn Féin, Social Democrats, The Labour Party, Independents Ireland, People Before Profit, and a smattering of other irrelevant egos.

Ireland has a lot of problems right now. We’re knee-deep in a massive housing and infrastructure crisis. It’s quite obvious now the previous government over-promised and under-achieved on housing targets. Some unkind political commentators might claim the Government lied during the general election campaign, but it’d be hard to argue that it would have been an unfair observation. So what does the opposition do? They pick a fight about obscure orders of business (speaking rights) in the Dáil. When they could have hung, drawn…