Fianna Fáil to engage in ‘masterly inactivity’ until general election

THEY’RE playing it down, of course, but Fianna Fáilers are rather gleeful at present given their rather robust state of political health. All things being relative.

There they are quietly sitting in the middle of all the Government despair and the speculation over which independent will pair up with which, and what sort of dolly mixture of groupings we will end up with going into the next general election.

It is a wonderful political study in the art of “masterly inactivity” and they must be pinching themselves at their luck given that they were virtually written off after the 2011 general election .