Nobody outside of politics talks about policies. It’s an insider term. It makes viewers switch off, writes Terry Prone

FIANNA FÁIL yesterday played down suggestions it was trying to entice Independent Fianna Fáil TD Niall Blaney, following yesterday’s announcement by Jim McDaid that he will not contest next year’s general election.

WHEN the time came to end his eventful political career, Charles J Haughey quoted Shakespeare’s Othello: “I have done the state some service, and they know it. No more of that. I pray you.”