Irish Examiner View: Fading FF a warning for blinkered FG

Taoiseach Micheal Martin's Fianna Fáil has huge difficulties but so too will Tanaiste Leo Varadkar's Fine Gael if they cannot find the conviction to change. Image: Julien Behal

Our world is alive with contradiction - or at least what we imagine as contradiction. Often what we see as contradiction can be more a matter of scale; more how audacity informs an event making it seem particular while the underlying plotline is anything but particular.

Those who squandered reputations by attending, just weeks ago but almost forgotten already, the Oireachtas golf society dinner may look with an unspoken sense of grievance at President Trump's Nevada rally this weekend. It was held in defiance of Nevada and White House regulations. Very few of the president's supporters wore masks. However, those standing behind the candidate and in view of TV cameras were told to wear face coverings. Whether this was a concession or an admission is moot but it did recognise that there can be alternative beliefs.