‘New’ Fianna Fáil, same old political cliches

FIANNA Fáil leader Micheál Martin made a big play of his promise that his campaign would not be about “poll-tested sound bites.”

However, nobody informed his speech writers, who happily dug around in catchy political rhetoric from around the world to pen his manifesto launch yesterday.

Here are some examples where his call for a different type of election were drawn from well-worn political sound bites.