Locking the stable door after the majority had bolted

“YOU have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”

That pithy little sound-bite from slaughter-merchant Oliver Cromwell used to merely just sum up the views of the vast majority of voters – now it speaks for some of the Government’s own TDs.

So, bye-bye, Donegal North East’s finest, Jim McDaid – how well we will remember your contributions to national life.