Irish politics needs to get away from Civil War

The local and European elections will soon take place and even now the election posters are being put up on poles as the candidates with smiling faces are knocking on doors and shaking hands with people hoping they will get their votes.

But Irish elections are becoming stale, mundane and uninteresting as we see the same men and women being put forward at every election as our politicians die in office of old age and their sons and daughters replace them with the same old ideas.

Politics and elections in Ireland have become a family affair as it becomes a closed shop. New people with new ideas are not encouraged to go forward as Civil War politics remain in the forefront, keeping us in the past, not allowing the nation to progress to the modern age.