The general election campaign is over and it's time to face the music
Micheál Martin, Mary Lou McDonald, and Simon Harris at the final TV leaders' debate. Picture: PA
At a rain-soaked train station in Dublin, with just hours left in the general election campaign, a first-time candidate is lamenting how little time they have left.
The three weeks, they say, have been gruelling, but they know now what they didn't know 21 days ago, such as the paradox of elections, and the experience is won through trial and error, and all you can hope for as the polls open is that you've left it all on the field.
