Dev Óg takes on those god-daingeaned Dinglers

IT is proper that the state alone should possess the apparatus of coercion and that it should apply it as and when needed on behalf the citizen and society in the protection of life, liberty and property.

Dev Óg takes on those god-daingeaned Dinglers

Whether the apparatus of state should be employed in suppressing the word 'Dingle,' and replacing it with 'Daingean' (at least within the confines of the 'Dingle' Gaeltacht) is an issue perhaps less morally clear to the average citizen, but then, the Minister for the Gaeltacht, Eamon Ó Cuiv, is not your average citizen.

Certainly he is possessed of great moral certainty.

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