Put the questions to us, we’ll do the democracy

It saddens me to hear the Irish people are unable to deal with the “stress” of too many referendums.

When we had two questions to answer on one referendum our poor little brains couldn’t, it seems, cope with the “complexity”.

It brought to mind a presidential election in the USA I once attended in one of Georgia State’s 132 counties! Having been signed in rather grandly as a “foreign observer” I saw the ballot paper contained not only the one Federal question (who do you want as president) but no fewer than 33 other State and Country questions.! Right down to who do you want as sheriff, who as headmistress of the local school, whether old oak tree in Main Street should be cut down etc. etc.