NORMAL people living and working in abnormal times may sound a little like a trailer line for a new television show, but it ticks the boxes for Reality TV for the times we are all currently living in.

The political die will have been well and truly cast by the time you are reading this and if, as widely predicted, that it falls in favour of a three-way deal between Fine Gael, Fianna Fail and the Greens, the political roadshow will move from Leinster House to Dublin’s Convention Centre.