Adams challenged again: Same old story, same old doubts

This choice was, presumably, a response to American’s President-elect Donald Trump’s incredible campaign. It is also an acknowledgement of the flexibility of those who campaigned for Brexit showed in their relationship with actuality, the set of circumstances most fair and rational people know as the truth.
The elevation of that word suggests that there is a certain novelty, a certain frisson, around the idea of post-factual behaviour, argument or campaigning in politics. That may well be the case in America or Britain, though that’s pretty improbable, but it certainly is not in Ireland.