As a minority government would surely have fallen considering what it needs to do and people would have just gone straight back to Labour.

So saying the Lib dems should have had a look at what is happening over here. The previous and current government is made up of Fianna Fáil (a centre right party) and a junior party. The public have been taking the majority of their anger on the government out on the junior parties come election time, even though it is primarily Fianna Fáil which is at fault for all the stuff that has gone wrong. The same thing could well happen to the Lib Dems.

I really hope the lib dems got a good deal on election reform, anything less than a referendum on PR is a failure in my book.