Here is the head of An Garda Siochána, the state’s police force, holding forth at the weekend about the value of living in a “liberal democracy”, and how, on foot of that, “there is something to be addressed” about the 3,000 or so voters in Dublin Central who gave their first preference vote to Gerard “The Monk” Hutch at the general election:
The irony here, of course, is that in a liberal democracy, it is generally accepted that the police force stands outside of electoral politics and has no business commenting on the merits or demerits of any candidate in an election.
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