Let’s keep sports stars off ballot papers

I suppose it’ll start now anyway, whatever happens in Kildare Street. Candidates needed, so insert sportsperson’s name here, writes Michael Moynihan.

At the time of writing, the population of the country was behaving like someone the morning after a long, long wedding: rubbing the temples, shaking the head slowly, and rolling the eyes slowly so as not to bruise the eyelids.

While you’re reading, in fact, you may already have people knocking at your front door to ask you to maybe remember our candidate on the day, oh dear is that what you’re reading, sure he hasn’t a good word to say about anybody, how many of ye in the house have the vote — Sorry.