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The French election has come and gone and Monsieur Macron has handsomely defeated Marine Le Pen.

What a wonderful, wonderful May we are having – let me correct that, what a wonderful first week of May we are having.

Last weekend, Insider enjoyed various documentaries and interviews commemorating the 20th anniversary of one of the most extraordinary nights in political history - Labour’s landslide win in the 1997 UK general election. Now, two decades on, as the UK electorate goes to the polls again Insider sees some interesting parallels with 1997.

Theresa May's decision to call a snap election in Britain - following numerous pledges that she would do no such thing - took political watchers by surprise this week, especially here in Ireland where there has been an ongoing, daily, assumption that our current Government will fall any day now.

What a deep sadness lies over Co Mayo. One can only imagine the devastation felt by the families of the two missing men from the aircraft at Black Sod and Blackrock.

I hope you had an opportunity to enjoy the last four or five days of beautiful sunshine. It was amazing and, really, I hope you had more than a few minutes to yourselves to appreciate the welcome spring weather.

“What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?” - William Henry Davies

Well, there is so much to talk about this week both at home and abroad, so let’s begin with abroad.

Well, as we said last week, a general election for Northern Ireland is now laid out for March 2.

“In Flanders Fields the poppies blow