Sorry seems to be the hardest word for Institutional Ireland

Archbishop Martin, the GAA, An Garda Síochána, the HSE, and Donald Trump. There’s a bunch that have nothing in common, you’d be thinking. Except maybe one thing — an inability to say sorry.

Some of the instances we’ve seen in the past week or so have been small, and some of them much bigger and more important.

Trump’s flailing around over immigration — trying to pretend that he wasn’t responsible for the brutal separation of mothers and children at the US Mexican border — was the most loathsome example.