This was always going to be the danger phase
Party leaders Simon Harris , Micheál Martin and Mary Lou McDonald on the campaign trail. Photographs: PA/Barry Roche/Collinsclimbs awkwardly onto a buffalo on a buffalo cheese farm to catch voters’ attention? Fairly or not, such images have reduced some observers to face-palm despair, amplifying the notion that our political leaders are unserious tools insulting the
Candidates are moving targets, political antennae on red alert. Leaders and ministers still on official national duty face daily judgment calls on trivia such as whether a dance-off is the appropriate use of a prime minister. The answer is that it’s not.
Starstruck people are always a bit foolish and giddy. They laugh at their hero’s most pedestrian comments if delivered in a jocular tone. It’s human nature. Whatever else might be said about’s comments about teachers , they were not remotely funny. Yet the resultant FG guffaws became one of this election’s “highlights” mainly because the whole campaign was so leaden.
Heroic canvassers hauling themselves up icy doorsteps have noted the alarming number of “not-ins”. Some reckoned that just one in five doors were being opened to them or found themselves regularly talking to smart doorbells rather than the residents. One Dublin Central canvasser talked of a strange mood of “apathetic bordering on angry”.
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