Given quite a few of our highly educated representatives have barely evolved from Cro Magnon Man (the Healy Raes' and their ilk), I think we should celebrate the fact they can read without running their finger along the page, never mind memorising a speech.
I think what we all have to accept is that those sitting in Leinster House, both houses, are scared witless of losing their grip on power. It's like a banana republic dictator, riding the tiger and lording it, but falling off the tiger means getting savaged. Teflon Bertie has seemed to get away with not understanding how banks worked enough to be able to open an account, if it were anyone outside of the political elite they'd have served time. There is an unspoken rule/understanding in LH to not go to town on certain matters (such as Bertie with his magical moneychanging safe and continual home improvements) because there could come a time when you're the one in the eye of the storm. Cronyism and corruption (if not physical then mental and moral) unites them all, in the main. It won't change, not even in another 50 years.
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