Colin Sheridan: We may not be as neutral as we think despite what Jeremy Corbyn believes

The former British Labour leader was at the annual Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Event in Galway last weekend where Colin Sheridan heard him urge Ireland to protect its neutrality

Jeremy Corbyn addresses the annual Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Event at the Spanish Arch in Galway. Photo: Ray Ryan

Spend any time in Jeremy Corbyn’s company, and it’s perhaps easy to understand why he never became British prime minister. 

Politics aside, he is simply much too understated. Too normal. So interested in other people that you might be forgiven for thinking it’s a diversion tactic — ask the journalist about themselves, thereby eating up the limited time available to speak of weightier things — but Corbyn’s lack of pretension is as obvious as the crack in his spectacles.