I confess to being endlessly fascinated by public attitudes in Ireland to the Government Jet,
Honestly, as proposals from politicians go, this is an early – and likely to be hard to beat – contender for worst of the year.
What message is being sent, here, to the hundreds of thousands of children who play Gaelic Games daily, and weekly? Effectively, it seems to be that cheating (whether deliberate or inadvertent) is okay, so long as you don’t get caught or nobody complains.
We are repeating mistakes that have been made by other countries before us.
Oh look.
Unbridled insanity.
The threat the “far right” poses is not to the public, but to the media and the establishment.
‘It is unthinkable’
For some, this whole process has been emotionally satisfying: There is a hunger, in some quarters, to see somebody, at long last, stand up to the Irish establishment and fight.
In order for there to be any sport in hare coursing, the hare must believe that it is about to die a horrible death.
Coursing with hounds as a pastime likely goes back many millennia but certainly dates back to ancient Greece.
That’s a reality that is harder to shout down or dismiss.