Aoife Moore: Dáil mud-slinging is like 'Wagon Wheel' at a country wedding 

As the Dáil returned, all the greatest hits in mud-flinging were played, reducing Marc MacSharry's resignation from the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party, which should have been seismic, to a mere footnote in a performance everyone is sick of watching

Fianna Fáil TDs Marc MacSharry and John McGuinness at Leinster House. File picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

The first day of school is always nerve-wracking, even more so when you know you're already in trouble.

The Dáil returned on Wednesday, after a shaky August, much like the shaky August that came before.