The party’s over as Cowen Factor fails to convince voters that FF’s got talent

THE “wow” that greeted the news of Fianna Fáil being beaten into third place by Labour in the Sunday Business Post’s RedC poll was an odd “wow”.

It was a “wow” without exclamation marks or raised eyebrows; an acknowledgement of a move from impossibility to reality.

Even that news wasn’t as bad as what was delivered late last night by Sean O’Rourke’s Week in Politics programme.