Analysis
Joe Lynam: Dublin City decision to honour Greta has rightly been ridiculed
Giving the young climate activist the Freedom of the City is premature, but it does underline the fact that Ireland needs a formalised honours system
Greta Thunberg must have looked at the map of Dublin and smiled. Any place that contains suburbs with names such as Dolphin’s Barn, Foxrock, and Leopardstown must be the right place for me, she may have thought. “I am at one with nature and Dublin must be like that as well,” she may have reflected when she received her emailed invitation to get the Freedom of the City with the Hurdle Ford.
The fact that ...