Mugabe the tyrant proves we are cowards on a continental scale

Mugabe has gradually made the impossible possible: restoring Ian Smith’s historical reputation.

He died, vindicated, last year. Barely anyone in Zimbabwe has a job. Inflation, at 100,000%, is so high that wages would need to be raised hourly to make turning up worthwhile

TODAY, the state buries Patrick Hillery. If he was a reluctant President, he had been an energetic minister, holding numerous offices over a 14-year period. As Minister of External Affairs — renamed Foreign Affairs in 1971 — he had his work cut out for him. Not only was there the outbreak of the Troubles to contend with, but Ireland’s accession to the EEC to negotiate as well.