A voyage into the political unknown

All bets are now off, as our political landscape grows stranger and more unpredictable by the day

Tom McGurk
Tom McGurk

Politically, we have never been here before. Last Thursday’s opinion poll in the Irish Times presents a political landscape that the Irish state has never before witnessed. You might forgive politicians and commentators if we confess we are lost on this map. One looks in vain for familiar Irish political landmarks, but they are nowhere to be found. Somebody had better send out a search party – the old civil war-inspired, two-party structure ...