Fianna Fáil’s new motto: It doesn’t have to make sense, it just has to look good

Fianna Fáil’s not sorry anymore.

After the apology-fest ard fheiseanna of the past three years, the party dried its tears and tried to switch attention to the tiers of an uneven society it claimed was being created by the Coalition.

Banking on voters being more concerned about their next electricity bill than the last election, Micheál Martin attempted to reposition the party left of centre — but as ever in Irish politics, this was no ushering in of a great battle of ideas, merely a continuation of the trench warfare of the austerity consensus.