There was little in Jim Gavin’s demeanour at the end of last Saturday’s special congress in Croke Park to suggest that his campaign for the presidency of Ireland was about to fall apart.
Then again, he had made an art form out of implacability and reining in emotions when managing Dublin. This time though, there would be no late deliverance.
There has been universal comment about the irony of last weekend when by right Gavin should have been centre stage, accepting bouquets for the extraordinary work done in the past 20 months by his Football Review Committee.
Instead, he was having what was probably one of the worst weekends of his life, culminating in the miserable outcome of having to cease campaigning in the election he had entered with such hoopla just four weeks ago.
The circus moves on and Wednesday’s blame game within Fianna Fáil will presumably mean a parliamentary party mee
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