A Day to Celebrate Irish Democracy

Stephen Collins, Irish Times
For all its faults and failings, the Irish Republic is about as far from a “failed state”, the clichd jibe bandied about during the financial crisis, as it is possible to be. In fact we are one of the oldest continuous democracies on the globe and that has not come about by accident. Our much-maligned political class have had something to do with it, as has the good sense of succeeding generations of voters.