Business was booming with a bumper crowd at Grand National Monday at Fairyhouse — with cash flying and a visit from Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

A sideways glance at the political year gone by.

IT WAS the moment the Coalition finally delivered transformative change — but Leo Varadkar sarcastically singing The Red Flag while Labour lorded it in a luxury hotel favoured by the super rich may not exactly have been the sort of change people voted for.