After a wasted week in politics — it’s time to focus on the issues that matter

SO, that’s over, then. Enda won.

And you read it first, by a long way, in the Irish Examiner.

I told you he would win last Monday, when the heave was still a twinkle in Richard Bruton’s eye, and certainly well before the whole thing had taken shape. In fact what I said was “if Enda fights and wins, it will do him no end of good in the opinion polls.