FF must wake up to public fatigue

IT was Charlie Haughey who came up with the great little silver bullet that every senior Fianna Fáil leader and minister has loaded into the cylinder since then.

It goes something like this: “The only opinion poll that matters is the one that takes place on polling day.”

As a defensive strategy, the glory of it is that not only do you shoot the message, you can also take a potshot at the messenger.