We live in a world where the national attention can be captured by a thoughtless backbencher’s stupid tweet. For a week. This is understandable. We have had four years of hanging on Donald Trump’s 140-character missiles. At the same time, we are swamped with the minutiae of the ur-story that is Covid. There’s little in-between.  While understandable, it is wrong that this much time gets devoted to what will become trivia in a week or two. The world is changing, rapidly, for good and for bad. Ireland is only affected by those changes. Rarely does it affect those changes. Are…

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