Pat Rabbitte: Bacik looks most likely to deny Fine Gael in Dublin Bay South
Timing is of the essence for FG and its first-time candidate James Geoghegan, but the experienced Labour senator is a strong contender
Timing can be everything in politics. Boris Johnson, the British prime minister, made a thorough hames of his initial response to the pandemic and has been besieged by allegations of sleaze. Despite all that, earlier this month the Tories comfortably won a by-election seat previously held by the Labour Party, as well as a raft of council seats in the Labour heartland.
It was the vaccination programme that done it, if you will forgive the ...