I’ll know Fine Gael’s renewal is underway when I see some repentance. When Simon Harris, or whoever the next leader happens to be, stands up and acknowledges the party’s central role in creating a country that sends so many of its own abroad while demoralising so many of those who stay.
Having plummeted in the polls and languished at the bottom for years now, without repentance, Fine Gael’s talk of renewal is nothing more than guessing at what disappointed and dwindling voters want to hear. It comes across as cheap.