Missed opportunity.
Heather Humphreys should have hotfooted it down to Dublin Fire Brigade’s HQ on Monday morning instead of Wednesday morning.
It was too late by then.
On Monday, she could have run into Tara Street station roaring: “Fire! Fire! I wish to report a fire! It’s raging in Fianna Fáil – they’re all raging – and their presidential campaign has gone up in smoke. They’re pure destroyed, hi.”
Then she could have run over to Pearse Street Garda station and reported Micheál Martin and Jack Chambers for arson.
What a standout moment for her campaign this would have been. And, not only that, she would have showcased her presidential credentials as a model citizen by performing her civic duty and reporting a major public incident.
But by Wednesday morning, not even the brave men and women of the Dublin Fire Brigade could have salvaged anything from the burnt-out wreckage in Leinster House.
On Wednesday evening, with their chosen candidate completely gutted and their election ambitions incinerated, fuming parliamentary party members gathered to rake over the ashes and vow that Martin and Chambers will never be allowed to play with matches on their own again.
Back at Tara Street fire station (it’s actu
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