O, brother: Super Enda fails to score support

SUFFERING slips, scrambling up to higher platforms and — well, let’s not beat around the bush — trying to kill your rivals may seem like just the average day in an election campaign.

However, instead of the scenes taking place in TV studios, press conferences and staged photo-opportunities, these traditional scenarios are now taking place in a whole new format.

Fine Gael has decided to immortalise its leader Enda Kenny in a Super Mario Brothers-style election computer game into the online world.