Áras déjà vu: Novel predicted lineup in 2007

ELECTION addicts might have thought you couldn’t make up a scenario in which a hard-nosed Sinn Féiner, two Derry candidates and an openly gay man all vie to become President — but apparently you could.

Nostradamus himself might have called it outlandish, but the novel Running Mates did just that in 2007, eerily mirroring this year’s race for the Áras.

The crime thriller features characters who — by sheer chance — bear a passing correspondence to Martin McGuinness, Dana Rosemary Scallon and David Norris.