Who will lead us in this new age of hair amputations and GUBU loss?

DESPERATE distraction, all this Fianna Fáil leadership stuff, isn’t it?

Especially because — until yesterday afternoon — there was no clear end in sight.

One of the Taoiseach’s more fascinating characteristics is his capacity to be both decisively indecisive and imprecisely precise. The consultative process with the lads, he decisively and precisely announced, would be done and dusted within a day. Or two. Certainly by yesterday.