DICK

Dick Roche has announced his (’personal’) opinion that a second referendum on Lisbon is the only way to go. We got the answer wrong, or something.

So if the fine people of Wicklow accidentally re-elect him next time around, does this mean we can ask them to try again til they get it right?

FF are now clarifying that he was expressing a personal opinion and not the party policy (yet) – which scares me, if only because they are clearly relying on the electorate’s inability to remember this moment in six months time when they decide the dust has settled and start printing ballot papers.