THE LAND OF NOD

“There will be no gimmicks“, warned Micheál Martin at the launch of Fianna Fáil’s General Election manifesto yesterday, much to the disappointment of Éamon Ó Cuív, who had planned to counter Fine Gael’s move to downgrade Irish in the Leaving Cert by reading from memory all of Máire Mhac an tSaoi’s poems.

With nothing to do then and so many portfolios to juggle lately, you’d excuse the normally indefatigable Minister for defence, social protection, environment, heritage and local government a sneaky snooze.

IT’S IN THE POST, GUARD