Irish Examiner view: Our sense of entitlement is a cancer

From financial scandals to the Beacon furore to the Dublin GAA early-morning training session this week, a sense of entitlement abounds

Would the training session at Innisfails — what a sadly apt name — have gone ahead if players ran the risk of having their team excluded from all competition for a year? Hardly. File picture: David Maher/Sportsfile

Discussions beginning to stir around reunification have, unsurprisingly, quickly reached the point that reminds anyone who cares to listen how polarising that argument remains.

Today’s discussion may be more cordial, maybe even more respectful, than the one that led, in 1912, to 471,414 Unionists signing the Ulster Covenant in opposition to Home Rule.