Madam, – I am appalled at the cool cheek of the rulers of our State, to take 12 days off to celebrate March 17th. One day off is what the people who pay that lot in the Dáil are allowed.
The country is in a state of chassis, which this lot are paid handsomely to sort out, and what do they do? Take 12 days off – just in time to come back for another month off at Easter. And we voted them in! – Yours, etc,
A chara, – Until recently, I have supported the practice of Irish Government Ministers travelling abroad for St Patrick’s Day to meet and greet, on our behalf, those of Irish affinity in foreign countries. I took the view that such visits could serve as a reminder that our nation, though small in population, yet is heir to a distinctive and important culture which we, as Irish people, are proud to protect and uphold.
But I have begun to doubt the fitness of our present crop of politicians to be our cultural ambassadors because of their failure to protect the present and future well-being of Ireland’s culture identity, through permitting excessive immigration.
Their neglect in this crucial area of national identity has been facilitated and supported by the EU “open borders” immigration policy which is well on the way to turning our small nation into a cultural melting pot where the indigenous culture will be seriously diluted, in the interests of achieving a so-called “multicultural society”.
Despite the glaring evidence of cultural conflict in several of Europe’s former colonial powers, such as France, England and the Netherlands, where seriously divergent cultures are expected to live side by side, in parallel societies, (thus undermining any sense of national cohesion), our politicians have failed to slow the flow of divergent cultures into Ireland, and justified this neglect of their national duty by pointing to the “open-borders” policy of the anti-national, and the certainly anti-small nation, European Union.
These same politicians have also failed to publicly debate or to seek a political mandate on the issue of immigration, which is central to our future identity as a nation, while using the negative ideology of “political correctness” as a cloak for their refusal to debate!
While our current leaders obviously failed to provide wise economic leadership for our nation over the past decade, the longest lasting effect of their incompetence will be felt in their neglect of the cultural legacy which was, unfortunately, entrusted to their care. – Is mise,