Solo-socialist Daly fires warning shot before reforming Click with Mick

Given that politics seems to go around on a never-ending bad news loop — cruel cuts, clumsy climb-downs, Coalition chaos — any break from the depressing norm elicits great excitement in the Dáil.

The unlikely source of such interest as the Oireachtas returned yesterday was the suddenly solo-socialist Clare Daly who turned heads during her late entry into Leader’s Questions by deciding not to sit next to tax cheat TD Mick Wallace.

This was strange as the pair are usually so inseparable within the chamber they have almost become a sort of political Jedward — Clare and Mick: aka Click.