For all the hackneyed superlatives that have been thrown around this election, allow me to add one more: Since the foundation of the State, probably no Dail has had so many superlatives used to describe it.
The challenges are unprecedented
The electorate is near-revolutionary
The expectations are impossible
The counterparties are intransigent
The situation is desperate
The situation is insoluble
Frankly, expectations are simultaneously so high and so low that the only thing that is certain is a further polarisation of our polity now that we have lost the unifying hatred of the previous government.
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