Blogging the election: Who comes up trumps?

OUR poor Taoiseach may feel he was recently stripped of all his aces but he can look forward to another powerful hand with the production of the first-ever deck of Dáil Top Trumps.

Sketch artists at bifsniff.com have teamed up with political bloggers at irishelection.com to produce possibly the quirkiest collectors’ item inspired by the 29th Dáil.

The Great Evader will have to tread carefully, however, because if he draws on the wrong statistics he could find himself losing out to Enda Kenny or the mustachioed Willie O’Dea.