St Patrick’s Day 2017: Celebrate by demanding more reform

FOR generations we, with a kind of mousy national pride diluted by crippling subservience, felt it was not a good thing to complain.

Complaining was unpatriotic, almost a fey, foreign self-importance.

Maybe we felt that by not complaining about an inedible meal, dreadful workmanship, grasping professionals or bully-boy clerics we celebrated the innate decency of what it meant to be Irish.