Leo puts paid to talk of autumn poll and us all out of our misery

Leo says it like it is. Leo does not speak with forked tongue. Leo lays it on the line. We all agreed on this? Course we are, writes Terry Prone.

And the line he laid it on, at the Fine Gael think-in in Adare before the weekend, was about when the next general election would be. Not before the end of the year, he said. Since the shelf life of the Government ends early in 2015, the inevitable next question was which month, next year? He didn’t know. He genuinely didn’t know, he shrugged ruefully. He’d love to know, he laughed lightly. But what he DID know was that we’re not going to have an autumn election.

As soon as he uttered this, the speculation collapsed like a bad souffle. In addition, the Minister for Health may have prevented violence, because, not joking you, I was lining up to thump the next person who asked me if we were going to have an autumn election.