Love thy neighbours

AFTER umpteen years of unfettered excess, is there any possibility that a majority of our newly-elected TDs have learned that personal ambition, greed and self-aggrandisement has proven to be the wrong option?

Would we not be better off looking after our neighbour instead of number one? This would have surprisingly beneficial consequences.

By dint of a strange quirk of fate, Joan Burton would appear to have inherited the most important job in the State — ask the silent majority — let us hope that she also has been imbued with some of the wisdom of Solomon — we are all going to need it.