Shame on this selfish society

WE fail everyday. We fail because we inure ourselves to it. We fail because we comfort ourselves with dodgy assumptions (Folks, if you think Ireland is a classless society, you are soooh not right).

We fail because we have managed to magic away all the unpalatable things that don’t fit in with our wonderful slap-on-the-back image of Ireland and sure-aren’t-we-a-grand-little-country-all-the-same.

But amid all the fervid jubilation at the Fianna Fáil Árd Fheis this weekend, there should be at least one discordant voice. And it comes from the most unlikely of revolutionaries.