Rishi Sunak has kicked off his election – in the rain. Was that an example of the elements saying that this man is going to have, um, moisture dropped on him from a great height? And he’s visiting the occupied Six Counties of our nation today. Will the IFA and GAA manage to persuade him to see that Casement Park is ready for the 2028 Euros?
The south of Ireland (finally) has recognised the existence of Palestine. Was Israel entitled to show Irish, Spanish and Norwegian diplomats watching video of the Oct 7 attack while filming them doing so?
Tony O’Reilly died this week. He was the golden boy of Irish rugby, the golden boy of Irish business – but was he right to use the pages of the Indo, which he’d bought, to vilify John Hume for talking ot Gerry Adams?
Finally, that Portal in Dublin – a two way-web-cam, sort of, which allowed the people on the street in New York to see (and hear?) the people of Dublin. It was on 24/7, but they cut that back to more like daylight hours, because some people were being rude, flashing bits of themselves that we normally don’t flash. Was it, as Joe Duffy said, the Irish people letting themselves down again? Or as a headmaster might have said, a small minority letting the rest of us down? Or was it just a bit of craic? (No, Virginia, no puns please).
I bet Rishi was over the moon having to visit the six counties, travelling over the water to a place he knows and cares nothing about. A place where nobody votes for any of the British parties. He would have been sitting on the bed, getting dressed, muttering under his breath about having to make a totally unnecessary journey. Hilarious.