Good to see that one of the better parts of English culture has remained in the culture across the Irish Sea:
This strategy betrayed an astonishing ignorance of the way the Irish, in common with most Europeans, currently regard their political class. Trust isn\’t the most obvious feature of the relationship between governments and the governed.
Understatement, that is.
Irish culture, you mean. Cheeky!
In matters where there is the perception of a threat to Ireland’s political identity, rural conservatives and the urban working class come together, as they did in Nice 1 (indeed, this union is the powerhouse of Irish nationalism both past and present, North and South).
In a referendum on questions such as divorce they are poles apart.