Ireland ‘one of worst tax havens’ - Let’s act on this awful accusation

ONE of the delusions we embrace is that the age of deference is over. We cheer ourselves, even if we don’t always believe it, that, on achieving independence we no longer had to bend the knee to a brutish colonial master.

We, back then, believed ourselves a proud nation free to take our place among progressive republics.

How very disheartening it is then to be told that we have replaced the deference informing the relationship between the conquered and an old-fashioned, colonial ruler with one just as toxic and exploitative.