“The president of the country’s largest public service union has said that there is little enthusiasm for the Croke Park agreement but that it is a deal for its time. In an address to Impact’s biennial delegate conference in Kilkenny tonight John Power said that the Croke Park proposals represented ‘the best and safest port available to the good ship public services in a raging economic storm’ …” (more)
[Martin Wall, Irish Times, 19 May]