welcome back to the Ireland of the 1950s: one church, one rite, one worldview, and woe-betide dissenters.
The double standard that will not go away.
Even to mention such details is to trade in crude emotions, depriving any debate of the cold clinical analysis necessary in such matters.
Of the kind you will not see on RTE.
A recent profile of Eamonn McCann in The Irish News repeated the mythology that McCann himself has cultivated.
“The outcome was precisely as Powell had foreseen, though in a time-frame twice as long as the fifteen-to-twenty years that he had adverted to.”
That Ireland is not a quintessentially anti-Semitic country (as I believe it is not) is irrelevant.
“within a single glorious fortnight this spring came decisive rebuttals of both these global religions”
Official Ireland remains as pure as the driven no.
If this is what it is doing to young people, we would be vastly better off without it.
The dominant discourse reflects the concerns of feminism, and it’s no coincidence that these concerns are often fictional.
Parsing the latest ESRI report.