The Sad Disintegration of the Land of Saints and Scholars

The Sad Disintegration of the Land of Saints and Scholars

Probably no other country in the Western hemisphere has undergone more profound changes in terms of national identity and moral degradation as a result of its eager participation in the European Union and last decade’s economic boom.

The Republic of Ireland, the Celtic Tiger of 1995-2008 with a growth rate as high as 9.4%, precipitously devolved from a mini-financial and high-tech power into a pathetic economic basket case with an unemployment rate of 14% by 2010.

Worse, Ireland wanted to play like the Big Boys and became a nation so obsessed with shedding its reputation as a step-child of the EU that it sank into a morass of massive spending, uncontrolled corruption, and political correctness which have virtually destroyed its national soul.

Those are serious charges although statistically-based and predicated on my status as an Irish-American and a fairly-frequent visitor to the Olde Sod over the last ten years, as well as someone who knew Ireland when it was still the old Ireland, before it hooked up with the rabble of Europe by adopting their liberal, free-wheeling, PC, soul-less social phlosophies.

Lot of good it got them in the long run.

Ireland’s latest demonstration that it has become a nation more concerned with being a full European, PC partner than with common sense is the announcement by the Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan that he will institute a rule that 30 per cent of all election candidates must be women. . .
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