Cormac MacConnell: Will the Clingdom prevail in Stroke Park?

I accept that sporting matters, for most of us, are infinitely more exciting than our frequently boring politics, but that gulf could be sharply narrowed, in this view, if political journalists were freed to use the colourful language and cliches of the sport pages.
As a young reporter in Dublin many years ago, I was only dispatched by The Irish Press to cover the Dail proceedings three times.