Cormac MacConnell: Country running fine with Patrick in charge

There are some quite astonishing facts which I wish to lay before you, as we approach the fabled feast day of our patron saint without a real government in office.

We smashed the last one, did we not, but their ghosts have to tenant their offices in Dublin until we either carpenter together a new government or wearily trudge off to the hustings again.

Meanwhile, is it not a fact that the country is somehow running like Swiss clockwork, without the politicians in charge?