If the referendum No side were icecream they’d lick themselves and Leo Varadkar’s St Patrick's Day photo op balls-up

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar during a visit to the home of the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park in Boston. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire, the fallout from the Government’s crushing defeat still reigns supreme. Indeed, three times out of five days this week we have led the paper with the story. The loss shows every sign of forming a durable relationship with the political system.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar during a visit to the home of the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park in Boston. Photograph:: Niall Carson/PA WireBack to the referendum well for this one as a whole squadron of not-so-shy No voters emerged from within the Coalition, eager to reassure voters over the airwaves that they had, in fact, been on their side all along.

The field looks likely to extend to ten or more candidates in the final reckoning, including Independents as colourful as John Moran, the former secretary general of the Department of Finance and sometime lobbyist. There will be more eclectic faces, and this race will be a banana skin for someone.Hard to look past the No side in the referendum for winners, but let’s pick out two in particular -, who have had that ‘if they were ice-cream, they’d lick themselves’ look to them all week.

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