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Terry Prone: Election 2024 has been boring — this week, that could change

The danger in an election as unprecedented in its boredom level is that, towards the end, something blows up that changes the entire ballgame...
Terry Prone: Election 2024 has been boring — this week, that could change

Outgoing taoiseach Simon Harris canvassing at the Rathfarnham Castle Park Christmas market on Saturday. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/Rolling News

In fifty years of working on general elections, I’ve never seen one like this. Ever. Boring was never a word you’d have applied to any previous general election. But it does appertain in this one. With bells on. Or maybe no bells, because bells would imply either warning or celebration, and neither seems pertinent.

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