The Taoiseach cannot muster an argument against the phrase. That’s why he has resorted to the whinger’s tactic of pretending that it is illegitimate.
This is the funny thing about Irish neutrality: We see ourselves as neutral, but hardly anybody else does.
They think they can rehabilitate criminals. They also think they can rehabilitate you.
The violence, you see, is only necessary if you get past all the initial hurdles. Respectable left wingers don’t want you dead, they just want you silent.
High stakes
When I look at him I see just another middle aged Irish fella in a suit terrified of saying the wrong thing.
The experts nobody wants to listen to.
Good candidates make their supporters feel smart for voting for them. Bad ones openly advertise themselves as clueless.
“I hope your wife is raped. I hope your mother is raped. I hope your sister is raped and gets pregnant”.
Until you see all these people on stage, facing off against each other, the polls are a bit of a nonsense.
Threats to his family are unacceptable. But public anger at him and his colleagues is entirely justified.
There are those who will say that yesterday’s ruling that the school should in essence deal with its own problem is some kind of victory for Mr. Burke.