Eoghan Harris (Independent)

Irish democracy, from Daniel O'Connell to Isaac Butt to Parnell to John Redmond and on to the War of Independence and the Civil War, when only a small aberration occurred, has always had a great parliamentary, constitutional tradition of the centre. I hope that when the waters stirred up by Friday's elections have subsided and by the time the next election comes around, people will recognise that the public sector and the banks must still be reformed and that work remains to be done.