Presenting United front before taking to the Parklife

AS THEY say in political backrooms: you campaign in poetry and govern in prose.

Presenting United front before taking to the Parklife
Fri, 04 Nov, 2011 - 00:00
Adrian Russell

Michael D Higgins did quite the opposite of course.

The poetic president-elect pared back on the rhyming couplets and iambic pentamber to stay on message throughout the most prosaic of campaigns.

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