If all the talk of treason in Dublin were in earnest, there would be nooses dangling from the Georgian lamp posts around the Dail instead of general election posters. There are no lynch mobs along the banks of the Liffey and the worst financial crisis in southern Ireland since the founding of the Free State doesn’t seem to be bringing about the kind of large-scale realignment that the Irish left has been longing for.
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