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Well, that is what Deputies John McGuinness and Bobby Aylward are desperately hoping for. With abominable opinion polls and an unprecedented week in politics for Fianna Fáil — they are now licking their wounds and picking themselves up just in time to hit the campaign trail with their tails between their legs.

Senator Fidelma Healy Eames has said there is an openness among Irish people for a goodwill patriot bond, similar to the system used to fund the country during the War of Independence, to help float Ireland again.

Political anoraks will have enjoyed - and indeed are still enjoying the fallout from - the past month as the first genuinely competitive British general election since 1992 has played out.

Not a week seems to go without some political controversy or other hitting our headlines and this week is no different.

The constituency of Carlow-Kilkenny is bracing itself for the possibility that it just might be appointed a junior ministerial role in the form of Green Party deputy leader Mary White, in the wake of the resignation of Junior Minister Trevor Sargent this week.

The Taoiseach Brian Cowen is to visit Carlow in coming weeks to mark the commencement of work on the new Merck Sharp & Dohme Biologics €200 million facility.

Mayo has been allocated €11.7 million under the National Roads Programme 2009 but there has been anger expressed at what was dubbed “the crumbs off the table”.

Mullingar reps were among the scores of angry taxi drivers who descended on Tullamore on Wednesday to hand in a letter to the Taoiseach’s constituency office, demanding action on the capping of licences.

With the preparations commencing for our national feast day, gearing up to celebrate this day seems in a time when feelings of anger, cynicism, and deep resentment are resonating though society, is far from a plausible notion, with even the most patriotic among us questioning the notion of being proud to be Irish. As we haplessly watch the country crumble around us, the fact that the world will be focusing their attention on our little land on St Patrick’s Day to laud praise upon us seems all the more iniquitous.

A little girl who has been denied a life saving operation in Crumlin Children’s Hospital visited Great Ormonde St in London yesterday to have an assessment for her condition.