Some slimy snakes gave saint the slip
Three vipers he missed, obviously, were blinkered utilitarianism, unaccountable authority and private greed. These three are now seen to combine to drive a motorway through the landscape of Tara where, among other things, legend claims Patrick defeated Lóegaire Mac Néill, ‘Emperor of the Irish’.
Patrick, the first Paddy (although himself a Brit), unknowingly set the agenda for modern Irish history in protesting vehemently, in his authentic writings, that he was not ‘on the take’ from his newly converted Christian flock.
