There’s an intellectual insecurity to the Irish ruling class, its political parties, its media, its blind followers. Driven by despair, it needs little encouragement, enjoys company and this week Catherine Connolly’s defence of self-determination was all it took.
Here’s the type of story you’re supposed to tell back west after working for Chinese state media.
Mum arrived late to an underage match of mine one summer’s evening in Dungloe. The family had moved there a few years before, in 1992, when Sam was in the hills and Daniel was on Top of the Pops.
There’s little enough enough to separate how Keir Starmer, the human rights lawyer with the knighthood and the Oxford law degree and the London townhouse, and Brian Nelson, the loyalist and arms importer and British state agent from the Shankill Road, view terror and its use.
I took the train(s) from Dublin to Ennis yesterday. Iarnród Éireann allows you to book a Dublin-Ennis ticket, €30 one way, but that ticket is for three trains. Heuston to Limerick Junction, Limerick Junction to Limerick, Limerick to Ennis. Tight journey.
