Lowering the voting age to sixteen is “a discussion worth having”, the Minister for Education told Ben this week. The good news is that as somebody who speaks fluent politician, I can translate that for you: When an Irish politician tells you something is certainly an idea worth discussing, that means they have no intention of doing it.
I can prove that to you, too: Irish politicians have been saying that the idea of an elected Dublin mayor is “worth discussing” for years. Seanad reform is another “worth discussing” that’s been thrown around since – literally – this forty-year-old writer was a baby.
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