Tommy Barker views a four-storey beauty which has been enhanced by its previous owners on Cork’s Blackrock Road.

IT’S getting ugly out there in party politics. To say all has changed utterly since last year’s general election would be stretching the point. Still, the last two leaders left standing — Enda Kenny and Gerry Adams — must be hoping the tumbrils will not roll up outside their doors, too. But will they?