One bit of word-tinsel, stored carefully in a Quinnsworth bag is ‘moratorium’. "Close the doors they’re coming in the windows.” But the moratorium does mark a shift in the cycle. Called in our greatest hour of need, they turn up at election time and then they disappear. I have among my treasured possessions a handsomely bound copy of The RTÉ Week In Politics Election 2011 and the 31st Dáil. And if the numbers feel like it, we might be back in the autumn giving the psephologists another call.

Source: Irish Examiner February 02, 2020 19:30 UTC