Eamon, your hour has come. Get out there and lead from the front

DEAR Eamon, I hope you don’t mind my writing you this letter.

I know you’ve a lot on your mind, what with a new and probably turbulent Dáil term coming up.

Indeed, if the Lisbon referendum goes wrong – and we all hope it doesn’t, for the country’s sake – you may be looking at a general election before you know it. By the end of next month, in fact.