Lack of novel ideas has left us hungry for more

Breandán Ó hEithir, thou should be living at this hour. The man who wrote The Begrudger’s Guide To Irish Politics, the greatest work ever composed on that topic, would have revelled in the election campaign which has just finished, writes Michael Moynihan

The essentials of the political process have not changed since Ó hEithir passed away more than a quarter of a century ago, which would make it eminently recognisable to him, if a little depressing for the rest of us.

Why? So many questions have been asked in the last three weeks that posing one more will either crystallise your experience neatly or make no difference whatsoever to you. What were you expecting from this election?