Fir Breaga in their element.

As predicted the up coming constitutional amendment is the perfect arena for the Fir and the Mna Breaga (best be careful not to upset the gonad brigade ) to sprout whatever comes into their heads,with little regard to the facts .
My approach to the matter is quite simple.I am a huge admirer of the 1937 Constitution.It was drafted by people who had just  emerged from a millennium of subjugation under the world,s greatest Empire ever and who never wanted to be vassals again to anyone.
It should only be meddled with in the most extreme circumstances and should never in my view be changed to concede sovereignty so hard fought for to any other institution.
That the Attorney General had the conjoles to pronounce that a constitutional vote was called for shows the she is a brave and proper woman and that the passing of the the referendum would be a conceding of sovereignty to a foreign institution.
Now the political parties have in the past been more than happy to campaign for the conceding of many aspects of sovereignty to the European ideal..The question we have got to ask ourselves now is whether with 14.5% unemployment ,mass emigration ,increased levels of suicide ,and while increasingly living in fear we would now opt ,were we outside the E.U. to make ourselves a part of a Union that is in absolute chaos.A Union that has austerity as its focal point,where 50% youth unemployment is common in Greece,Spain ,Italy and Portugal,where there are riots in the streets ,where ordinary people are displaying alarm at the running of the club whenever  they have the chance and where democratically elected politicians are blackmailed into conceding democratic control to unelected officials.
Whether thes issues are avoided by the yacht club brigade or those who wouldn't clear the shite of a sick chicken from the coop ,these issues dont go away.
I would say that we would not  opt for membership of such a club,even pavilion membership..
The fact that the current Taoiseach can publicly be so nasty to a man regulated out of business after nearly thirty years by telling him to get a job,when 450,00 others can't and that his Minister of Finance can be so insulting of Greece ,the home of democracy,by reducing their worth to the level of a form of cheese  tells its own story.
I happened to be at the removal of a former hospital companion of mine ,Jo Ging from Ballivor,this evening.
The Church was packed as you would expect for a man who lead such a decent ,worthy and compassionate life.We were for a long time in regular contact but I lost contact over changed phones and he only last week asked Vincie Rattigan to get me to contact him.Vincie delivered the message but I was so busy I put it on the long finger,a decision I will eternally regret and which just shows how unpredictable life is.
Any how the queue to offer sympathy was long and  a former Fianna Fail minister was in it.The talk of him was "There's one of the people that put this country back forty years"Hard to disagree.His successors have added another ten years on to that without our consent and now want to make it permanent.
Our ancestors refused the soup to abandon principle.Surely we are brave enough to do likewise .
By the way attempts to say that we are at the "heart of Europe"is Fir Breagaspeak at its worst.Think about it.