Parties can’t resist promising the Sun, Moon and Stars
If ever we needed proof that politicians will do anything to get elected, we need look no further than the pages of our newspapers where grown men perform the kind of stunts we might reasonably expect to see on satirical TV shows but not listed in the CV of a future Taoiseach.
Snogging dogs, turning sods, kissing babies and risking life and limb for a fake exchange with a swimmer at the Half Moon off Dublin’s South Bull Wall is par for the course in a campaign where the most sensible of men — and it is mainly men — have lost the run of themselves.
