This is the “adult in the room” persona that Martin employed to good effect during the election campaign – but with added barbs. You people are not serious, he is telling opponents. You need to grow up. This, it need hardly be added, drives them nuts.
A former tánaiste is being lined up as a Government-backed replacement for Michael D Higgins in the Áras. Government anxiety about the Presidential election in November will have been increased by the most recent Red C Sunday Business Post poll,
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