Terry Prone: As election looms, the real experts to seek out are the canvassers

There's an impression that advisers and communication experts are the people to whom everybody should listen — but this is not the case

Taoiseach Simon Harris canvassing voters on St Stephen's Green, Dublin earlier this month. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA

Let’s confess, first of all, to a grievous moral sin. It is a sin committed not just by me but by a rake of people who comment on politics.

The occasion of sin is the election. By-election, local election, Seanad election, general election or presidential election. Most of all, perhaps, a presidential election gives rise to this offence.