The conventional wisdom that at least Fine Gael, the senior party in the outgoing governing coalition government, would reap the benefit of the Irish economic recovery in last Friday’s general election, has been upended. As the count proceeds, Fianna Fáil, the architect of the property-fuelled boom and bust, has almost matched the Fine Gael vote, and after its near death experience in the 2011 general election, the once long-dominant political party can claim to have made one of the political comebacks that for political journalists at least merits comparison with Lazarus, the biblical character.