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.
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.
Let’s go further.