Pat Leahy: decisive moment in campaign might not arrive until the new Dáil meets

Absolutely central to our public conversation is popular discontent with politicians. They’re useless, they’re all the same, they’re in it for themselves. They’ve destroyed the country. Why haven’t they done this? Why did they do that?

We believe our political class is so incompetent that you wouldn’t send them down the shops for milk (though somewhat confusingly, we also expect them to solve the country’s problems, and to do it pronto). The antipathy ...