Government deserves kudos for dealing with Brexit fallout nonsense

Institutional memory such as this, which carries the wisdom of reflection, is not valued as much as it should be in politics, writes Alison O’Connor.

IT’S a tough station when your neighbours on both sides go crazy, in and around the same time. If you have no choice but to stay put, the sensible option is to make the best of a bad situation, or to develop a defence mechanism where your brain tells you that things are not actually that bad. There are times though, when the screaming insanity of it all hits home with a wallop. This week was one of those.

When I speak of neighbours I mean the UK and the USA, and little ol’ Ireland stuck in between. Whether we look left or right now we witness the kind of craziness we could never have even imagined a few years ago. Who would have predicted it would be going on wholesale both across the Irish Sea and the Atlantic; that we’d have to spend a lot of time pretending — officially at least — that rather than utterly bonkers, dealing with Brexit and Donald Trump was, like, regular stuff.