We must take full ownership of what it is we’re voting for

YOU know when you put something away carefully and you did such a good job of it that you can’t find it? Well that happened to me this week. It drove me nut, writes Alison O’Connor.

By day three of the search I found myself thinking that I needed to pledge €20 to St Anthony in order to get his assistance in my quest.

I laughed at my own hypocrisy — the lapsed Catholic falling back on the ingrained, never-to-be-fully-shaken-off faith of my foremothers — doubly so give that the item in question was a pair of First Communion shoes that are needed for this weekend. They do, of course, match the white dress.