Browsing All posts tagged under »hypocrisy«

What Obama showed us about Ireland

May 24, 2011

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Reading around on parts of the Irish internet yesterday, during the visit of Barack Obama to Ireland, I saw a lot of exclamations in this vein: I spent the whole day watching it on TV3, fantastic stuff. I get goosepimples when I see the Americans landing here, theres something fantastically grand and epic about it… [Read more…]

Letter to The Irish Times on Obama’s state-visit

May 22, 2011

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I wrote to the editor of the Irish Times this morning. I have little hope that my letter will be published, and so I thought I would post the letter here too. Madam, Today the American president visits Irish soil, to a sycophantic welcome from our political class and from the general public. It would… [Read more…]

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