Don’t ask because they don’t want you to know what they were up to

WHATEVER else you may say about the present Fianna Fáil–PD conglomeration, their innate sense of political preservation is very sharp.

While they may be in fact, are tentative about other policies like cutting hospital waiting lists, their long-term policy in relation to hanging onto power is rather more focused.

Generally speaking, most of us haven't any specific plan as to what we will be doing in 2007, and we certainly don't reckon on anything we may have said or done in the past year having an impact on our future at that stage, unless that great route of escapism the Lotto happens to spit out our numbers.