The bizarre talk about a FG/FF or FF/FG coalition serves perhaps to distract from the reality that the economy is shrinking because people cannot pay for goods and services, people are afraid of Budget 2014 and are saving to pay taxes, people have no jobs to go to and cannot pay mortgages, and people are leaving the country to find work.

STEVEN KING’S advocacy of a coalition of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael is a dangerous proposition (Feb 9).