Enda waves bye-bye to seat

It started off as the by-election the Coalition could not lose and ended-up as the bye-bye election for the Government’s majority in the Seanad.

And all because Fine Gael tried to make it a buy-election by clumsily attempting to buy their candidate some cultural credibility by hoisting him onto the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art days before Enda Kenny just so happened to nominate him to the cultural panel of the upper house.

Indeed, at the start, Kenny probably thought he was being as clever as that devious fixer played by Kevin Spacey in House Of Cards, but almost immediately this house of cards collapsed and the Taoiseach was left looking like the joker in the pack.