From one own goal to another

TOO scared to run a candidate for the presidency, Micheál Martin is left looking like a politician on the run from the people.

Fianna Fáil’s self-flagellating over whether or not to make a bid for the Áras not only descended into farce but was allowed to become a slow-motion communications car crash in the process.

The sudden smashing apart of British imperial power in the 1950s was branded “managed decline”; the collapse of the once all-dominant Fianna Fáil over the past year would be better dubbed “mismanaged decline”.