Irish Examiner view: Climate is more urgent than a united Ireland

Irish reunification is a noble cause but it does not have the same urgency as confronting climate change

An anti-Brexit billboard proposing a united Ireland as a solution to Brexit at the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.  Picture: Brian Lawless/PA

Though the pandemic complicates matters, premiership political handlers, business lobbyists too, understand that setting the public agenda is no more than minor hurling, first-round minor hurling at that. 

The greats of that often invisible art — James Carville, Peter Mandelson, and, in the green corner PJ Mara — understood that setting an agenda was the easy part but that maintaining focus on a subject can be difficult — especially if the agenda-setting is, in part, designed to distract.