By the way
One of the benefits of the success of the Irish economy via Europe was an increase in the support for the arts, particularly the traditional arts, which brought about a turnaround of the fortunes of Irish music and brought many thousands of youngsters to it, enabling them to be creative artists and not just factory and farm fodder.
Not only has this assisted the Irish economy at home, but it has allowed kids to build careers and musicians and music teachers abroad - and has made traditional Irish music an international phenomenon.
Thatcher was the nearest Britain ever came to electing a fascist into office and her contempt for working people, especially young people, as being anything but factory fodder (certainly not creative human beings) is till very much part of Conservative philosophy
That is the Christmas the turkeys are being asked to vote for - cold and bleak as ever
Jim Carroll
Jim Carroll