Éire go on boy, really?

THERE’S been a creeping feeling in Ireland lately that maybe we’re not the people we thought we were.

Éire go on boy, really?

Notions of being clued-in rogues, well-liked and highly successful when we bothered to get up off the bar stool have been blown away by recent events. We’re in the mire and it’s all our own stupid fault.

And just as we wobble over our newfound identity crisis, along comes Fergal Keane to knock out a few more pillars from our sense of self. The Story Of Ireland (Tuesday, RTÉ One, 10.15pm) is at pains to point out that our history might be very different than what we had imagined.

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