The loss of the principle of subsidiarity from Irish public life accelerated during the Covid pandemic, when the State shed its sense of distance and made everything its business, from how far you could physically move from your home to how many people you could have in that home at any given time.
While that was a particularly exaggerated set of circumstances, the general movement has long been in that direction, one in which the ‘central’ State apparatus gradually expands its sphere of influence over individuals, institutions and organisations that previously operated under their own authority.
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