I foresee poll bashing for Cowen as Harrington completes Paddy Slam

EACH year at this time, a small but select band of us gathers around ancient fires in a hidden part of the forest.

We have come together in our secret conclave to boil up all sorts of unmentionable objects in a huge tureen and to peer at the entrails so we can accurately predict what the future holds for you.

Last year we forecast that the PDs would go out of business after electing a leader whose name no one could remember. We predicted too that Bertie Ahern would call it a day just in time for Brian Cowen to face the Lisbon Treaty on his own.