Every day I take the same route.

GOING outside was probably the best, worst, most wonderful and horrific idea of my life. About two years ago, bright little me decided to expand my horizons, and ever since I’ve been struggling to keep up with the flurry of emotions that have come with all of these broadened horizons.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny is under renewed pressure to explain his role in the resignation of former Garda commissioner Martin Callinan, after his Coalition partners suggested he should answer questions on the matter before an Oireachtas committee.

It’s a telling sign of the Government’s difficulty in getting to grips with matters that a minor clerical error has placed the Taoiseach at the centre of renewed controversy just a week from polling day.

Shatter-gate and the story of the Garda whistleblowers refuse to go away.