Chuckling Gavin Duffy knew the price of milk but had long lost public’s interest

‘THAT was Gavin Duffy,” came the back announcement from Pat Kenny, mid-morning on Saturday. “Eloquent and generous in defeat”, writes Terry Prone.

Kenny nailed it. Duffy had been both. Nothing in the presidential campaign became him like the leaving of it. He talked perfect prose. He sounded happy, rather than resigned. He wished “my President and yours, Michael D Higgins” the best.

The problem with post-election comments by the ones who didn’t win or — like Peter Casey — came in a threatening second, is that they are considered necessary, by media, like eating your greens, brushing your teeth and saying Please and thank you, but for the most part, nobody cares, unless the defeated one cries or evinces a frame of mind that is rewardingly bitter and twisted.