“Such has been the systematic infantilisation of Irish popular opinion that this dependency is not a subject for national shame.”
I confess to being endlessly fascinated by public attitudes in Ireland to the Government Jet,
What does it say about our sense of ourselves as a country that our leaders, by contrast, are expected to fly economy?
Irish Ministers have taken 30 trips on the Government Jet this year, new figures reveal. The Jet has been in use for 125 hours, at an approximate cost to the taxpayer of just under half a million euros. The Jet has been used exclusively within Europe, with Ministers apparently preferring commercial travel for longer journeys […]