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.
It must be more than “Pro Life Sinn Fein”
If she’s been a secret Fianna Fáiler for all these recent years, she’s done an extraordinary good job of hiding it.
Perhaps, in that respect, all the media bashing of Sinn Fein down the years has been to the party’s benefit. After all, they’ve gotten as far as they have without worrying about what Shona Murray writes on twitter.
Almost all political energy these days is expended not on serving people, but on fixing them.
So, back we go, however temporarily, to a Britain of Keir Starmers and Ken Clarkes and Alastair Campbells. The grown ups are, for a time, back in charge.
What would Ireland look like if the Irish media gave even a fraction of the scrutiny it does to Mr. Johnson to the Irish Government, and its record?
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