Knock Knock: Saviour wanted for Irish politics

It says a lot about the search by some for a saviour to lead Irish people to the recovery that the first group to welcome people to Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s general election selection convention are pilgrims travelling to Knock, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

Perched outside the train station in Claremorris, Co Mayo, those travelling to the west of Ireland shrine climb onto the Brendan’s Bus Hire white van waiting to whisk them away to the nearby religious haven where an apparition once promised a better tomorrow.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Junior Sports Minister Michael Ring, and local TD Michelle Mulherin did not need the help of any unnatural phenomena to get over the line last night, with the Mayo selection convention amounting to an uncontested walkthrough for the TDs.