Power of protest brings its own sense of reward and virtue

The great thing about the protesting gene is that it takes credit for even the most tenuous apparent victories, writes Terry Prone

YOU can be born into a Fianna Fáil family, a Fine Gael family or a Labour family. You can be born into a criminal family. Or a rich family. Or a protesting family.

Of the whole lot — no insult to the political parties — should you be given a choice, you should go for the rich family, if only because your life expectancy tends to be longer, starting from familial riches, than if you come from a criminal family and win the transient riches at the point of a gun or knife.