RE: Sp12 May 2020 23:18
John46,
You won't get a reasoned argument from Fontenoy. He is an example of an interesting psychological phenomenon I have observed here in Ireland since the Brexit vote. In 2016 Ireland had just celebrated the centenary of the 1916 rising which had assumed almost mythical status in the country's pysche; the small versus the big, the people versus the empire, independence versus unionism. Then the Brexit vote; the small versus the big, the people versus the empire, independence versus Eunionism. Now the English are the rebels and the Irish are the Eunionists...it was and is a shock to the Irish mind that alot of people still struggle to deal with...