– Frank McNally on being traumatised by the increasing youth of taoisigh

Simon Harris seems to have reached maturity without accumulating any of the usual youthful indiscretions along the way. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

Now suddenly he’s gone, and those crazy young things in Fine Gael have exacerbated the trend by electing a 37-year-old, still damp behind the ears, to replace him.Arms crisis – Frank McNally on a crash course in arm-wrestlingAt least in Myles’s time, ruling elders really were elderly. Or in the cases of WT Cosgrave and Eamon de Valera, they went to considerable trouble to appear so.

Getting back to policeman, I have long since become inured to seeing gardaí with cherubic features, but it was a big challenge for a while. Anyway, one morning at the height of the madness, I was cycling to work up a hill in a suburb we’ll call K*lma*nh*m, where there was a red light near the top. A cyclist never wants to stop when climbing – it’s too hard to get going again. And the junction was very quiet that morning.

So it was that, again to save both of us from the shame, I accelerated past him like a drugged-up Colombian mountain specialist launching an attack on Alpe d’Huez, and left the poor recruit standing.

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