Trump and Brexit loom over year ahead

Let’s hope the coming year brings better tidings than those received from the one we’re leaving. Twas a year to remember and a year to forget.

On the remembering side, the commemorations for 1916 went better than could be expected. At the outset of 2016 there was great trepidation about what was on the way.

Were we destined to, as Yeats remarked on the reaction to the opening night of O’Casey’s Plough and the Stars, “disgrace ourselves once again”.