The National Interest?

I think it was Des O'Malley (founder of the Progressive Democrats) who brought that phrase to my attention many moons ago: "in the national interest". Many years have passed since then and the bridled chaos, held fast for so many years by nothing more than lies and the singular interests of the civil service, has now been let loose upon a chamfered society that is without direction. Ireland, litter tray of the Celtic Tiger, is now more like the pissing bed of a much more sedate and hapless creature; one that I will call the Hiberno Hamster. Yes, an animal that will happily feed away on its [...]