Presidential debate – or maybe bullfight?

Did you listen to the Catherine Connolly v Heather Humphreys debate on RTÉ radio today? I ask because we masochists must stick together. 

If I said it brought to mind a bull-fight it wouldn’t be totally off the mark.  Not that Heather is a bull, or like a bull, or wouldn’t be very careful if she went into a china-shop. But she’s lately taken to flailing out wildly as Catherine has again skewered her on some point.  To give you an idea of her desperation, she tried to tie Catherine to Paul Murphy’s brouhaha back in the day with Minister Joan Burton over water charges…Still with me? She was trying to damage Catherine by saying that one of her supporters, Paul Murphy, had once been charged with imprisoning in her car an obscure female politician. Even worse: after the radio matador thing,  Paul Murphy declared that he had been found innocent of any such charge, and it showed how desperate Heather Humphreys now was: 

“It’s unfortunate that Fine Gael’s desperation has reached such levels that Heather Humphreys is now trying to undermine the unanimous decision of a jury. I’m confident that our positive campaign to elect Catherine will continue to grow in momentum despite Fine Gael’s smear campaign.”

Meanwhile Micheál Martin has gone out of his way to make clear that he’ll be voting for Heather Humphreys in the presidential voting booth. Micheál Martin is, as you probably know, the leader of Fianna Fail, and Heather Humphreys is a life-long Fine Gaeler.

Paddy Power, apparently, has begun paying out to those who bet on Catherine Connolly. 

When Heather and Micheál wake up (in separate beds at separate locations, just to clarify), will they wonder why they have been consigned to the Ninth Circle of Hell?