Shane Ross: Bankers are lucky this is our most right-wing government ever

Would previous cabinet rebels such as Tony Gregory or even Dessie O’Malley have agreed to lift the cap on bankers’ salaries?

Cartoon by Tom Halliday

Shane Ross

Where was the radical rebel at the cabinet table last week? The dissenting voice?

Government meetings must be deadly dull these days. The only tension seems to be the tiresome jousting between Micheál Martin and Simon Harris. God be with the days when there were healthy rows between ministers that would then leak into the media.