Reasons for a resurgent Fianna Fáil to be cheerful, parts one to eight

FOR those stricken with disbelief at Fianna Fáil’s resurgence in the opinion polls, here are eight factors that party currently has going for it.

The Post-Divorce Syndrome: People in the course of gruesome divorces accuse each other of unspeakable evils, unrevealed before the wedding, but now proven to be threaded through every fibre of their being.

Sharing the same country as the former partner is a trial. They would chop each other into little pieces and deliver those pieces to a meat-processing plant, given half a chance.