Oh, heavens, I'm not characterising all doctors as greedy - my own doc is part of a wonderful practice where the GPs treat private and public patients some days of the week and run a service in a grindingly poor part of the city on others.

As for the election, I wonder will it make a difference. It looks as if Enda Kenny will be standing on the podium as Taoiseach during the 1916 commemorations, surrounded by a whirling cloud of fury as the ghosts of the dead attempt to curse the values of Fine Gael; the master of arrogance Alan Kelly, who scraped in as the mud on the voters' shoes on the multipleth count, is looking to unseat Tánaiste Joan Burton, who also scraped in, to 'remake' the Labour Party…

As for the left – well, the votes voted in large numbers for independents; not all of those were left. Though the pro-life element was certainly rejected across the spectrum.

For those of yeez out foreign, like, next time there's an Irish election try and tune in to the two- to three-day counting of the votes. Because we use Proportional Representation, this can be deeply entertaining; for instance, Chris Andrews appeared to be topping the poll in the first count, then slid down and down as the transfers were redistributed. The count is always a joyous experience of hubris punished and a feast of schadenfreude.