So much for the old reliables

Issues today’s electorate consider most important would have been the least of their worries a decade ago, writes Political Editor Harry McGee.

NOTHING has stood still in the past decade. Like John Hinde postcards, RTE’s archive series Reeling in the Years shows an Ireland that no longer bears any relationship with reality. Even the footage from the late 1980s and early 1990s has a slightly other-worldly quality about it.

The issue that dominates the political agenda now would have been the least of everybody’s worries a decade ago.