These celestial vistas don’t diminish any of that, but they can offer some respite, especially this evening. If you need to stare into an abyss, it might as well be beautiful.

A year has passed since Dublin stared into the abyss, since the night when rampaging forces of darkness implanted a heavy ...

And everyone seems to feel as if they’re staring into an abyss. Voters burned by years of polling misses don’t know what to make of narrowly divided polls, or whether to trust them at all.