The long-awaited Government move to scrap the cap at Dublin Airport has little immediate impact on leisure travellers but will incense environmental groups, some locals and even farming bodies whose members resent being told to cut their emissions.
The Taoiseach has backed Gráinne Seoige over her insistence to the Sunday Independent that she was not a "parachute" candidate imposed by him or Fianna Fáil headquarters.
The Finance Minister has to be an honest broker, who doesn't operate in a partisan way. That's not possible when it's a party leader The leader's loyalists are blaming the dissidents for stirring the pot on Micheál Martin. "A small number of people are out to destroy Fianna Fáil," a senior party figure reportedly told a behind-closed-doors local meeting.
Taoiseach dealt with his former party leader ruthlessly, using every lever at this disposal to close all routes to the presidency Bertie Ahern and Micheál Martin go back a long way. Right back to 1989.Both were proteges of a certain Charles J Haughey. Today's Taoiseach owes his break in politics to Charlie.
