Irish Examiner View: Politics strugglingto remain credible

This has been an appalling week for Irish politics no matter how the glad-handing officer corps of the three parties in government, and Sinn Féin too, try to mollycoddle critics.

It is increasingly difficult to write honestly about politics in a way that might not discourage those who would work in the process so our world might be made a better place and so our children might have a better tomorrow. 

The optimism and sacrifice needed to counter the shabby, hypocritical culture of imagined exceptionalism and assumed privilege is so draining, so distracting from the day’s really pressing issues that only the most committed citizens engage — even if only for a brief period.