HE’S really pleasant, but wouldn’t be an intellectual heavyweight like Garret.

FOR those stricken with disbelief at Fianna Fáil’s resurgence in the opinion polls, here are eight factors that party currently has going for it.

SHE’S probably the most successful neophiliac ever.

IT’S the fields of waving wildflowers that are puzzling.

SO you’re going for a job interview.

THE email was welcome, because emails from this individual are always welcome.

WE stand between two significant television moments. One happened last week, the other is due later today.

RIGHT now, somewhere in Ireland, someone’s giving their name and telling everybody in the room how they stole from dying relatives or spent their children’s Holy Communion money or sold the curtains for drink.

DEAR Government Backbencher, 2012 wasn’t exactly the best year of your life, was it?

THE year my grandmother threw the turkey on the kitchen floor was the best, by a mile.