One of the curiously unacclaimed yet defining characteristics of Irish County councillors is self-regarding bullfrog pomposity. Local Irish politicians squatting on their lillies seem to love lecturing foreign countries on how to solve their problems. So, it was a trifle unfortunate that the Russian drones didn’t intercept and kill President Zelenskiy as he flew into Ireland’s shamefully undefended skies. Yes, possibly a high price to shut our political classes up, but could such silence be bought for less? I doubt it. What else could have stopped Dublin City councillors recently pontificating like a pondful of bullfrogs, croaking about the evils of Israel, as they attempted to “dename” Chaim Herzog Park?
Sinn Féin’s Councillor Ciarán Ó Meachair declared that Chaim Herzog had commanded troops who “raped, murdered and pillaged innocent civilians”. Councillor John Lyons of the Labour Group said that Herzog had forcibly expelled 200,000 Palestinians from Jerusalem into Jordan. Conor Reddy, while rejecting charges of anti-Semitism, declared that the debate on the issue “calls into question the entire project of Zionism and shows that the state of Israel itself is illegitimate.” Republican Sinn Fein Councillor Sciobairin Iolaire said “We will still keep our eye on the Emperor of Israel, Netanyahu and on all such despotic enemies of human progress and man’s natural rights.”
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