Many of you may by now have read Fintan O'Toole's article in Tuesday's Irish Times. In a nutshell, he writes that our system of government, the cabinet system, has been bypassed three times in the past three years (the blanket bank guarantee in 2008; the bailout of 2010; Budget 2012, 'leaked' to other EU states). That is, the body that should have ( Read more... )