Irish Public Service Agreement 2010-2014: The agreement between the Government and trade unions on public sector reform could work but to paraphrase the writer George Bernard Shaw, Christianity could be a good thing if anyone ever tried it. Put simply, only a fool could bank full confidence on this hastily cobbled-together deal and to quote the renowned American baseball player, Yogi Berra: “It’s déjà vu all over again.”
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