Opening presidential vote to diaspora is an exercise in comic gigantism

By engorging the presidency... it disturbs a delicate equilibrium in which the president is primarily a bulwark for restraint in the face of potential irresponsibility, writes Gerard Howlin.

LAST Sunday in Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, our Taoiseach announced another constitutional referendum.

If approved, this would allow Irish citizens resident outside the State, including in the North, to vote in presidential elections.