To step forward and declare you want to serve in spite of all the abuse requires brave, old-fashioned character
Simon Harris at Leinster House in 2012. Part of his daily duty is to call up the spirit that fuelled him in his 20s and encourage the good ones of all stripes to remember why he and they are there. Photograph: Cyril Byrne“in Ireland she would have been appointed by FFG to the board of RTÉ or some other state board. And that’s the truth”. It’s not even a version of the truth in 2024. He has 97,000 followers, apparently.
If politicians like Varadkar and Ardern are burnt out, it’s a sign of the corrosive nature of politics He also had a clear problem with the patronising “ah, bless him ... young lads need to learn to hold their nerve” attitude from veteran politicians and he was willing to bite back: “I know I have loads to learn, but learning is different to morphing into what came before me. I ran against experienced politicians – but what was their experience? Bringing the country to ruin?”
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