A successful and fair minority government is the way forward

The media and many political commentators, displaying serious collective amnesia, are, lemming like, demanding a ‘stable’ grand coalition between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.

They seem to have taken an extremely forgiving attitude and have forgotten that both these parties wreaked enduring financial and social havoc on the Irish people in recent times. Fianna Fáil were responsible for the unprecedented devastation and destruction of the economy, which forced the country into a hugely-embarrassing bail-out and loss of sovereignty, resulting in the permanent loss of control of our affairs to strangely named foreigners.

Meanwhile, Fine Gael, cushioned with their own world class salaries and pensions, made the ‘hard’ decisions and displayed a total lack of empathy when foisting unequal, unjust and unnecessarily brutal austerity on the most vulnerable. As is their wont, they pandered to their European masters, their support base, big business and the well off, and despite being festooned with hugely paid advisors and handlers, ensured their inevitable demise in displaying the same incompetence, secrecy and cronyism, layered with their traditional arrogance and innate political naivety.