FF and FG coalition possibility: Time to end an irrelevant division

It would be a delicious irony if the greatest opportunity given to the parties of the left in the history of this State achieved what generations of moderate, loosely Christian Democratic, Social Democratic politicians with more or less the same objectives failed to do. 

How ironic it would be if our economic collapse brought about the inevitable, if gradual, unification of the two most powerful — historically at least — parties in the country.

How transformative it might be if circumstances usually regarded as an opportunity of the left actually were the catalyst that forced Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to work together or collectively face the prospect of the kind of marginalisation, one bordering on irrelevance, Fianna Fáil has had to endure since the February 2011 election.