Many have said this in jest, but I say it seriously: many of those in positions of power and influence in Ireland have made something of an art form of evading accountability, wielding obfuscation and hindrance as a painter his paintbrush or an author his pen.
My reflections on this were spurred by yesterday’s bizarre court decision to grant an application by the gardaí that the identity of a man accused of attempting to abduct a five-year-old child be withheld from the public, silencing reporters, due to “the current climate in the country”. Which my editor John McGuirk, I think correctly, notes most people will probably interpret as a reference to simmering immigration anger.
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