Junior coalition partners needn’t be meat in sandwich
The lesson for smaller parties is not to forsake coalition altogether, but to execute it better
As Fine Gael pursues the possibility of a minority government, there has been talk of the precedent of 1948 for an unlikely coalition. But the most unlikely coalition in Irish history was that of 1916.
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