Messrs Ahern and Dempsey are in their fifties and Cooper-Flynn is in her forties. Hardly 'normal' retirement ages for politicians. These tough cookies must be really feeling it to have left the stage.
Or is it just that there is something to jumping before your pushed. All of these seasoned politicians have managed to maintain a high profile throughout their careers. No invisiable backbenchers these. Cooper-Flynn was tipped as a Minister (not least by her gushing father). Ironically Flynn senior was to be the thwarting of progress on that front. The others, at the very top of the Fianna Fail pack and long-serving Ministers, leadership material at one time or another.
It is said that it is sometimes better to be principled and on the losing side than unprincipled and to win. Quite.
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