September 25 election
Inadequate appeals process
For the decline is not even, truly, mourned by our rulers. It is embraced with a vigor and a passion that has, as I have written before, an openly religious quality.
I have come to an inescapable conclusion about seeking public office in Ireland in recent years: You’d have to be an utter fool to do it.
It’s a religious revival, a sort of religious revolution, in which the earth is God, and we the people are the sinners who offend it.
Once you give Government a tool to do something, it’s always the first thing civil servants reach for when a crisis hits.
“If you want my opinion, it’s this: Robert Troy should be hounded out of office. Chased. Given the boot. Fecked out. Perhaps even made a national pariah.
But not for this.”
The fact of the matter is this: “Far Right” is just the bucket, increasingly, into which the state and its allies toss every issue and group that they do not wish to deal with.
Not, of course, that anyone would ever suggest that an inexperienced Minister like Norma Foley would be being played like a fiddle by career civil servants. Perish the thought.
“They thought I was a token cage fighter”: Holohan tells all
When everything is a crisis, something needs to change.
There are lessons here, for those who want to see them. The problem is that very few people on the right do want to see them.