Gerard Howlin: Election likely to signal end of dominance by big two parties

The issue in this election is whether there will be a change of government. The bigger issue is whether two larger parties sharing 50% of the vote can continually configure government around themselves.

I think not. In that sense, this election is likely to be the last dominated bilaterally by the bigger two. That is the follow-on from the 2011 election and the aftershock of the 2016 result.