This old canard – that the economy would collapse absent inward migration – bears some examination.
And perhaps the involvement of successful businesspeople can make the state more efficient.
A response to Fintan O’Toole
They really do want to replace you.
welcome back to the Ireland of the 1950s: one church, one rite, one worldview, and woe-betide dissenters.
Ultimately, much of Irish commentary comes down to that same central point: Why can’t the rest of the world be as tolerant and liberal and open and feminist as we are?
Returning to normal is, of course, a good thing. Fintan’s objection to it, I think, says far more about his belief system than almost anything else he has ever written.
The big lie is that all this change, change that the voters hate as it goes directly against their own interests, is inevitable.
This is the kind of delusional Disneyland insanity that the deeply stupid experience between buying a €100 million Euromillions lottery ticket and checking out the results.
Also: Fintan O’Toole’s extraordinary attack on cataract busses.
Journalists, having been deprived of their ability and power to censor and curate the public conversation, would dearly love that power back.
This transformation of politics in the west from a battle of ideas to a battle of competing tribes of people convinced that a single defeat will bring the end of the world as we know it is, needless to say, not a great development.