All together now in no man’s land, nothing learnt and nothing gained

IT’S the fairytale election — just without the happy ending.

Eamon Gilmore began the week reading The Gruffalo to children and ended it stuck into another work of fiction — the Labour Party manifesto.

All the while Micheál Martin and Michael Noonan attempted to defy the laws of gravity — and reality — by competing to see who could do the biggest back-flip and then pretend nothing had actually happened when they fell flat on their faces.