From the banquet of rank injustice, crumbs of comfort sometimes fall. Thus, in the Taoiseach’s cowardly betrayal of the Army over the Cathal Crotty affair, we get a real insight into his character, namely as a mob-pleasing, attention-seeking moral-vacuum. The other crumb tumbling from the table comes from the organisers of the Pride marches in Dublin and Limerick banning any participation by members of the courts service and the Defence Forces in their meaningless parades. Which is good. The ban should henceforth be made permanent, on the orders of the PDF’s Chief of Staff.
But first to the carefully-considered words of the Taoiseach on the latest crisis to assail the poor, beleaguered desperately underfunded, and hopelessly ill-named Defence Forces, which can defend virtually nothing, not even themselves. The PDF were not remotely involved in the shameful incident in which an off-duty soldier Cathal Crotty attacked and broke the nose of an inoffensive young woman in Limerick.
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