Battered Leo will find it difficult to move on from this debacle

The Taoiseach didn’t just misread the room — he wasn’t even in the same neighbourhood as people of political experience, says Alison O’Connor.

It is quite the achievement to have, in one fell swoop, annoyed the hell out of, and utterly bewildered, your Cabinet, your TDs and senators, your party faithful, the party on whom you rely on for your survival in government, and the public.