Ideological deficit that weakened the very basis of our republic
Instead of promoting such ideas the media should expose the so-called republican posturing as arrant nonsense.
For the first quarter of a century following independence our politicians argued about republicanism, and whether this country was a republic or not. In July 1945 James Dillon, the future leader of Fine Gael, complained that only the Taoiseach, Eamon de Valera, knew whether we were a republic or not. So de Valera responded by clearly defining a republic and leaving everyone to decide whether we fit the bill.