Patience wears thin as FG and FF prevaricate

How long can the present ritual play out without inflicting damage?

Denis Naughten made saving his local hospital a priority in his Election push Pic: RollingNews.ie

The proposition that the people go to the polling booths across the country in an action carefully calibrated to produce a hung parliament is nonsense. Nor is it the case that a quarter of the voting population cast their votes for independent candidates and smaller parties to put them into government.

People declined to vote for the traditional parties or positively voted for independent candidates for many different reasons. Usually a minority of ...