Outright theft or incompetence by the mighty, even in plain sight, is seldom if ever punished in Ireland, rather as if this were a cold wet Sicily and omerta were spelt with an apostrophe. Far more certain than any evidence of probity is the certainty that, yet again, things will end badly

Had Sinn Fein fielded candidates in every constituency at the recent election it would almost certainly have formed a single-party government. The Army of the Irish Republic would be answering to the IRA Chief of Staff and Ireland's police taking orders from the IRA man running the Department of Justice. Yes, it is that bad

Not merely does the leader of the Irish government apparently not know that Britain lies between Ireland and mainland Europe, his party members think they should sue whenever an adult falls off a child’s swing with a drink in each hand

Demographic transformation was one powerful reason why the plain people of Britain voted for Leave, and also why the EU has tortured them for doing so. To this list of indignities add the inane venom of author Fintan O’Toole's monumentally absurd 'Heroic Failure'

We live in an age in which irreversible character assassination is a public entertainment, the slanderers being for the most part well-bred, well-paid, intelligent and enjoying the tacit backing of social-media giants Facebook and Twitter. They raise lynch mobs in 140 characters and have established a worldwide Reich wholly antithetical to the freedoms of speech, thought and association