Sinead’s Second Republic is a big hit with me

Sinead O’Connor has fanned the flames of a silent revolution in her advocacy of a Second Irish Republic. She has brought attention to the Constitution’s inadequacies and its many amendments.

If the ‘Man on the Moon’ landed here and read the Constitution, he would scratch his head and ask: ‘Why, in the name of the Most Holy Trinity, should the people of Éire humbly aknowledge all obligations to our Divine Lord, Jesus Christ’?

The ‘Man on the Moon’ would ponder why the architects of the Constitution selected Gaelic as the official language when English is what we speak.

He would not understand why the Irish, having spent 800 years wrenching independence from the ‘Brits’, would end up in the arms of the Troika.

He would scratch his head, again, when he discovered that Irish citizens living abroad are debarred from voting in elections at home.

Having the craic in some bar or other, he would hear that Ireland is the greatest little country in the world?

‘If that’s so,’ he would ask, ‘why are hundreds of thousands of you protesting against a second water tax, to be imposed against your will? My advice to you, people of Éire, is that you’ve got to reclaim your country.’

Before heading back to the Moon, he would raise his glass of the black stuff.

‘Here’s to Sinéad O’Connor,’ he’d say, ‘and her advocacy of a second Irish Republic.

Joe Terry

Blarney,

Co. Cork