PDs: “…a one-generation party of conviction politicians”

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The Irish Times has an aptly succinct and laconic account of the demise of the Progressive Democrats. Not least on the factors which lately brought them to the end:

…time, energy and public support eventually ran out after 10 continuous years in government with Fianna Fáil. The PDs turned out to be a one-generation party of conviction politicians. Its control of the high moral ground was compromised when it flip-flopped over support for Bertie Ahern’s unorthodox financial dealings in the general election campaign. And when their leader, Michael McDowell, abandoned them, and Mary Harney declined to fill the void, there could be no coming back.

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