Jennifer Horgan: We have set a new standard for what angry men can achieve. It's terrifying

Angry men's blockades stopped my mother being with her dying brother-in-law last week. She was not the only vulnerable person whose needs were trampled on

Fuel price protesters outside Leinster House on Tuesday. Picture: Collins Photos

I am terrified by the new standard that has been set for angry men in our country, a new kind of ‘terrible beauty’, and yet another form of war.

The standard is this: If a man’s suffering is deemed awful enough, he has every right to bring society to a standstill.