We do not need lessons in governance from UK

In his recent TV programme David McWilliams went to London - a centre of colonial power for centuries - to get someone to denounce this small democracy and former colony as a ‘pariah state’.

This is the same colonial power that cleared large areas of this island for the plantation of its own minions.

This is the same colonial power that introduced penal laws which deprived Irish people of their commercial, economic and political rights for hundreds of years.