Willie’s gone – and just in time for the 9 o’clock news too. We won’t see the likes of that moustache again. The battle to claim the scalp has now begun but, whatever about claims from the Green Party (a day late and a dollar short), Fine Gael, Labour Party and the Limerick Leader in this regard, we can really chalk this one down to Sean O’Rourke and yet another robust interview on the News At One. It must be catching: watch Anne Doyle’s sharp questioning of Sven Gormley here.

Rhetorical question of the day: will Willie top the poll next time out in Limerick East?