Fianna Fáil still calling shots from the grave

PERHAPS one of the most perplexing issues of this election is the continued influence of Fianna Fáil in its progress and probably on its outcome.

One might have anticipated that having been in government for the last 14 years and having turned an economy from one of the most dynamic in Europe into one which is effectively speaking bankrupt the party would have been consigned to the sidelines.

Add to that the destroying of the banking system and you would have thought that the only place for them to go was into the dustbin of history. But this is not the case.