Slugger’s ‘play the ball’ rule and the [ever urgent] quest to bridge diverging communities
So as David has noted, we got a nice mention from Noel Whelan, a long term reader of Slugger, in his OpEd in the Irish Times. He’d been ruminating on an unsettling trend in southern politics for direct protest, and in the case of Fine Gael Michelle Mulherin in Sligo something a great deal more Northern Irish in flavour. That, much more than the vocal protests against the President, is particularly worrying aspect of a more general trend towards vocal …
