Paul Hosford: Winter is coming. But the coalition parties should bring the temperature down too

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have been shadowboxing on policy differences but it's begun to turn personal 

Outgoing Justice Minister Helen McEntee was in ebullient form on Monday, greeting voters during the Fine Gael walkabout in Cork. But, along with Senator John McGahon, she has been the subject of increasingly bitter exchanges between her party and Fianna Fáil. Picture: Dan Linehan

The weather has officially turned.

Whereas the first week or so of the general election campaign was played out in unseasonably mild weather, Monday felt like... well, a Monday in November. Damp, dreary, bitterly cold, it will have made one former taoiseach feel somewhat vindicated.