Fergus Finlay: Vote for Taoiseach was chaotic — but it was great craic, wasn’t it?

On days like last Wednesday, people stop what they’re doing and tune in to find out what’s going on in the Dáil

Simon Harris and Micheál Martin speak to the media after nominations of the Taoiseach and of other members of the Government broke down in the Dáil after multiple suspensions. Picture: Sam Boal/Collins Photos

A week of tarnished reputations. And some enhanced ones too. And a week, hopefully, when real battle lines were drawn up around the issues that matter.

I wrote here last week that our new Government had done itself no favours with a weak programme for government. It was hard to find a single worthwhile specific in the entire document, and I could find nothing at all capable of lighting a spark of inspiration.