Ah, the thud of campaign leaflets hitting the welcome mat. It’s election season again, that time when our aspiring politicians grace us with their presence. And by presence, I mean a glossy flyer that promises the moon on a stick.
It was a sign of trouble to come. In the aftermath of the embarrassing double referendum defeat last month, Simon Harris was ringing colleagues to gauge the temperature after the record-breaking losses in the votes on family and care.
There was a very telling incident during the week when Dublin City Council chief executive Richard Shakespeare dared to use the phrase “ne’er-do-wells” in public. Discussing the Dublin riots in an interview, Shakespeare opined that you might say that, with the post pandemic environment, “ne’er-do-wells feel emboldened”.