Readers Blog: Time to get rid of parties to achieve just society

To favour any vested interest, be it the in-profit hospitality sector, construction, or rental sectors, with special Vat rates, concessions, or tax breaks while the healthcare and homeless waiting lists are fast approaching the incredible one million mark is obscene, insulting to the people, and breaches those multiple articles in our Constitution which include the words ‘the common good’.

This confirms Fine Gael as the most right-wing party since the foundation of the State, closely followed by their like-minded ‘coalition’ partner Fianna Fáil, who, through self-preservation and lack of courage and vision, continue to deny the electorate the opportunity to make some badly needed changes in the governance of this two-tier nation.