An old saying: “May you live in interesting times.” What appears to be a pleasant sentiment was actually a curse back in ancient times. Its original translation reads: “May you live in difficult times.” We are living in extremely difficult times.
Time in the game of politics doesn’t follow a logical trajectory or momentum. In the space of 20 days, the length of time it took for one taoiseach to announce his resignation and his successor to move into his new office, we expected so much to happen; but it didn’t.
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