Article: Vaccines for badgers (but not 12-year-old girls), building tourism hubs (whatever they are) in Dubai and jobs (lots of them) for the boys; The Greens can't hide their satisfaction over their new deal. Instead, RICHARD WAGHORNE argues, they should be ashamed of a raft of pointless initiatives the country can ill afford.(Editorial)

Byline: RICHARD WAGHORNE

FOR more than two years now, the Greens have had to put up with sneers at their futile fight to be taken seriously. The deal they signed in 2007 ditched so much of their manifesto it is a miracle internal dissidents did not set up a group called the Continuity Greens.

Out went commitments on Shannon and Tara and much else, never to be seen again, let alone much remembered last weekend.

From there things have only gone downhill dramatically.

Since the local elections they have been in the unenviable position of being a political party with fewer councillors than they have TDs, their local representation having ...

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