GeoffreyBoycott:
Bandage:
Brendan Howlin’s seat in Wexford should be pretty safe in fairness.
Could someone remind me why Enda hates the Murphy chap? He seems like the bland, posh dickhead type that would go to the top of Fine Gael. Didn’t he align himself with Bruton et al as a youngster when they were trying to get rid of Enda back in the late noughties?
There must be a real pallor of gloom across the country of Wexford with the retirement of political colossus Deputy Browne. Hopefully the exhausting process of finding someone to fill those boots will yield a worthy successor. Will Ger Carthy or Mythen eat into Howlin’s vote at all?
Eoghan Murphy is a son of Henry Murphy S.C. and a grandson of Gay Byrne’s former financial guru Russell Murphy. Very much south Dublin Fine Gael blueboods. Enda is from the country & wetern/big farmer type end of the party. Those two factions generally don’t get along.
Russell Murphy swindled both Hugh Leonard and Gaybo. Took Hugh for 1/4 million and Gaybo for 150k which was a lot back in the day. His friendship with Sunday Press Beauty columnist Bronwyn Conroy was often commented upon at the time as well.