There is no difference between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael

Whether to enter a coalition with each other will be a choice Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael will have to face sooner or later

A year ago, as the election results gave us weeks of political stalemate, I was arguing in this column that a Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil national coalition government gave us the only prospect of a functioning administration with the necessary numbers and the talent to take us through the looming Brexit crisis years.

It’s hard not to conclude now, having watched the political stasis that we have been in ever since, that I was ...