Business Post’s View

The opposition should hold the government to account but using the riots to sow division smacks of opportunism

From the moment Mary Lou McDonald, the Sinn Féin leader, said she had no confidence in Helen McEntee, the Minister for Justice, and Drew Harris, the Garda Commissioner, it was a case of when and not if a formal motion would be tabled in the Dáil.

There was some surprise it did not come last week in the immediate aftermath of the disgraceful scenes in Dublin, but come it now has.

The bringing of a …