Dump Greens in talks and let’s have another election

FAIR play to Ger Colleran for his comments on the strategy of involving the Green Party in a new coalition (MoS, May 10). He has, as always, put his finger on the real problems that such a strategy will encounter.

Yes, the country desperately needs a government… to legislate on departmental budgets that have been decimated by the costs of the Covid-19 virus and, no doubt, will be for some time yet. Yes, the national economy is likely to be shattered for another year or two at best.

The new government should, theoretically at least, last for five years, and it would not be unreasonable to imagine that long before then the virus will have been defeated by new vaccinations and drugs.

So then what? Another two or three years at least of trying to get the economy back on its feet in the face of the Greens’ ideology for which economics is irrelevant?

So please let’s stop all this nonsense of trying to recruit those zealots into government and let’s have a new general election.

If the opinion polls are to be believed, we could end up with another Fine Gael government whose only chance of a majority would be with Sinn Féin. Time to bite the bullet then, lads!

Not everyone’s cup of tea perhaps, but a great deal better than the cup we are currently being offered!

Anthony Manser, Faithlegg, Co. Waterford.

Video games issue

So Dr Michael Mosley has finally realised that video games are good for the brain (MoS Magazine, May 10). Most people thought that for many years, just as chess, table-tennis, painting and your puzzle-pages are good for the brain.

The problems that real people worry about lie in two areas. Firstly when video games take over from healthy human contact and, secondly, when children start to believe that whatever they see on screen is acceptable behaviour in normal life. That is why most intelligent parents are concerned about the increasing presence of video games. There are many more positive ways of helping our brains.

Richard Barton, Maynooth, Co. Kildare.

Marty misses point

I SEE that Marty Whelan laments the fact his colleagues Seán O’Rourke and Mary Kennedy were forced to retire at 65. He bemoans the fact that great experience is dispensed of.

Does Marty not think for a moment and wonder how they got all that ‘experience’.

They got it because those before them retired at the acceptable retirement age of 65.

At least most of his colleagues had fairly hefty salaries throughout their working life with the national broadcaster and a very decent pension.

Geraldine Byrne, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.