An ending Higgins the poet didn’t see coming

IN the official polling notice published in the national press at the outset of the presidential campaign, all the candidates list their names, addresses and occupations.

Michael D Higgins has two occupations, according to the notice. He is a “lecturer” and is a “poet”. What more could you want in a president?

For at least a month up until last weekend, the election was Higgins’s to lose. Now he looks like he may be in danger of doing just that.