The state has largely, over the past few decades, shyed away from the institutionalisation of the mentally unwell.
What we’re learning here is McDowell’s value system, and there is much to learn indeed.
Here is a thing that most Irish people do not understand: Higher energy prices have been the long-term policy of the Irish state for about twenty years.
We flatter ourselves in this country – it is almost a national pastime. But on Gaza, the plot has been lost entirely and altogether.
“The right thing would have been public loyalty to a friend, but Watson instead chose a form of public piety”
There’s a reason that, before she dropped out of the race due to ill health, Mairead McGuinness was the overwhelming favourite to win the Aras.
The debate is his chance to introduce himself to the country in his own words and show that he can hold his own with two seasoned politicians.
If Irish politicians do not take public safety seriously, why should anybody who cares about their own safety come here?
The problem is a political system full to the brim of people terrified that if the public were given the right to choose, it would not have chosen them.
I have been a fool.
I know only one option is off the table: I will not be voting for Jim Gavin.
Silence. And speculation.