Lest we forget

CONVENTIONAL wisdom has it that fish have a memory span of about a second. But conventional wisdom, it turns out, is wrong.

Goldfish are not the dummies they are made out to be. Scientists have successfully trained goldfish to push a lever to get food at the same hour every day. The fish remember what they have been taught for months.

I would suggest that the memory span of the Irish electorate is not that much different.