Salad days as old foes turn over a new leaf

Sir — John Dalberg-Acton said: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” But it also seems to have healed a century-old rift between the two big beasts of politics in our country.

Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, not wanting to relinquish power, have joined together with the Green Party to govern for the next four-and-a-half years.

Can we say there are salad days ahead?

Ken Maher,

Kilcoole, Co Wicklow