Sport is belatedly being treated in a serious way.
Gavin Cooney THIS COLUMN INVITES you to view our dull and zestless election campaign as a profoundly positive thing.
Trump, the Tories, Marine Le Pen…all of the West’s nascent political disruptors are united by total shamelessness; a willingness to lie and obfuscate in ways so obvious it is breathtaking. It’s much tougher to get away with that in Ireland, however, given every political figure in Ireland is subject to the tyranny of a whispering village and the terrifying weight of a neighbour’s judgement.
Advertisement Ferriter also quotes a study which estimates that a TD spends 53% of their time on constituency work and 37% of their time on national, legislative work. Where Patrick Kavanagh made his Iliad out of local rows, our finest political minds have made 4G floodlit pitches. Hence there are now gleaming facilities in sparsely-populated rural areas, and a desperate shortage of playing fields in cities, particularly between Dublin’s canals.
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