Tom McGurk: The twin who just wants to be popular

The huge drop in Fianna Fáil’s opinion poll ratings this week, bringing it back level with Fine Gael on 26 per cent, suggests that our two major political parties are becoming identical political twins in size as well as policy.

Of course, there isn’t an iota of real political difference between them; there hasn’t been for years, apart from historical legacies.

But their elaborate pretence has to be kept up to guarantee their ...