Even Fianna Fáilers are sick of their legacy of corruption and expediency

YOU know the way we become immune to things — even tragedies fail to move us when they are piled up over time. We become hardened and desensitised.

In the case of Northern Ireland, for example, thousands of people died without making us weep. It took certain kinds of events the Enniskillen or Shankill massacres, the Warrington bombs to jolt us out of the complacency that familiarity created.

Isn't it the same with Fianna Fáil? Aren't they incredibly lucky that so much has happened over so long a time, that we have all been able to absorb it and adapt to it? We are almost immune by now to the sense of shock that a new revelation about Fianna Fáil should be able to bring. And the essential reason for that is because there have been so many revelations over so long a period.