The real dilemma of the Quinn affair: The invisibility of the Irish state to its own people
Ireland is going through an extraordinary times recently… It finds itself in the midst of a flux and change much greater and scarier than anything wished for in those far off days when Gay Byrne’s prodigious talent used to come at the nation on TV (weekly) and Radio (daily) upbraiding the nation for its illiberality and failure to get outside its own conservative Catholic box. The Celtic bubble (as might now feel free to call it) did float some boats …