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

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

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

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.

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