Pat Rabbitte: Fianna Fáil is just playing for time

Only another election can provide an enduring government. For now, let’s limit the damage

Enda Kenny and his Fine Gael party members in front of Dail Eireann last week Pic:RollingNews.ie

If last week is anything to go by, you can wave goodbye to stable government. But surely in the national interest we will have a government? If a temporary little arrangement is forced into existence, it won’t be because of the national interest. It will be because Fianna Fáil, for a short while, will feel compelled to postpone its objective of once again becoming the largest party in the state.

Forget the high-minded ...