GOVERNING FOR INSTANT GRATIFICATION: Elaine Loughlin

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Aug 6, 202637:08News & Politics

The coalition government, awash with cash and bereft of a core political compass, appears to be governing by the path of least resistance. The Irish Examiner’s Political Editor Elaine Loughlin recently outlined in a colu...

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