Fergus Finlay: It’s either Biden or Armageddon — the unthinkable is now possible

Over the next few days, there will be immense focus on the latest polls — it’s hard to see anything but impending disaster

President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign rally, Friday, June 28, 2024, in Raleigh, North Carolina. A good and decent man had been exposed as really frail, and allowed a vicious liar to look like the only one who could carry the burdens of the Presidency.

There’s a question that used to be asked all the time. Not asked so much anymore, because you have to be over 60 for it to have relevance. Younger people wouldn’t have any answer, and as time goes by I guess fewer and fewer will even understand the question.

It’s “where were you when JFK was killed?”. I was in Bray, in my parents’ house in Novara Terrace. Upstairs, in the sitting room. I was looking out the window towards the park across the road when I heard the voice of Charles Mitchell, Ireland’s first and legendary television newsreader. He was telling us that President John F Kennedy, Ireland’s favourite son, had been shot in a city called Dallas and had been pronounced dead in the Parkland Hospital.