'As podcasting goes, it’s quite a premise. Get a government leader to interview the guy who literally wrote the book on how well things are going. It’s sort of like Ronald McDonald interviewing the Hamburglar. Of course he likes the burgers.'
In the last two years he’s appeared on The Two Norries, The Laughs of Your Life with Doireann Garrihy, and the Talking Bollox podcast. At this rate, it won’t be long before he’s tearfully eating chicken wings on Hot Ones or doing ayahuasca with Joe Rogan .
In one illustration of this argument, Henry says: “I know teachers’ unions say there’s not enough teachers but I say… Look at the very recent research that shows that [our] fourth-class reading ability is second only to Singapore.” He includes forestry as a positive, acknowledging that “some say” forestation in Ireland is not made up of “the right trees,” presumably referring to the prevalence of sitka spruces, which according to environmental Mary Colwell, are turning Ireland an “ecological dead zone”. Just to reiterate, that’s one of the positives.
Nevertheless, we do owe Micheál Martin something of a debt of gratitude. Some weeks it can be tough to bring all the relevant stories of the week together in a way that is narratively pleasing. This week, we can simply think about some of the week’s stories in the context of how optimistic they make us feel.
All of these things happened in the last seven days — thereby excluding other recent stories of a national broadcaster in crisis, record-breaking homelessness figures, and a children’s hospital that, judging by its cost, is set to be made of solid gold.
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