Labour doing its best to make all the wrong decisions

Hell is truth seen too late, observed the political philosopher Thomas Hobbes. And while the Labour Party meets in Mullingar — not hell — this weekend; the road to Mullingar, like the one to hell, was paved with good intentions.
Not quite a wake for the party’s time in power, more the removal — removal of reality as to why Labour finds itself in such a mess compared to Fine Gael, if the musings of its past and present leaders are anything to go by.