Media also to blame for minority government

Your editorial of May 12 condemns the ‘old bread-and-circuses instincts’ and ‘the old hucksterism’ and the ‘gombeenism’ of the programme for government.

Coming from a media that were cheerleaders for all of this in spades during the years of the celtic tiger and then spent the years since the resulting collapse in 2010 complaining about the consequent austerity that is a bit rich.

The reason we now have, as your editorial says, ‘a weak, dependent, minority Government’ is a result of the behaviour of the powerful opinion formers in our media over a long period.