Given the storms on international waters, we could be forgiven for forgetting we had our own dramas

Trouble on the home front: Taoiseach Enda Kenny. Photo: Getty

In a year that dragged us kicking and screaming into the middle layer of a Brexit-Trump sandwich, we could be forgiven for forgetting that we, too, had an election in 2016.

And it even seemed dramatic at the time.

With the nation launched straight into a General Election campaign in January, a helpful new website promised to take the mystery out of the voting process.

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