It is genuinely going to take days, if not weeks and months, to go through the money pumped into Irish organisations by the US federal government, an issue brought to light in recent days by the revelation that “$70,000 was spent by the US government producing a ‘live musical event’ in Ireland in the name of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)”.
However, even before an exhaustive analysis of different aspects of that funding can be offered, it feels pertinent to make the following point for consideration in our national discourse: maybe it was not, after all, the right that “imported” US-style culture wars, as is so often claimed by Irish progressives, but rather it was the wholesale acceptance of American thinking and – perhaps more importantly – money that ensured that ideas that should never have had purchase in Ireland gained it.
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