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John Walsh: If he gets a second term, Bidenomics could have a very positive and lasting legacy
But Ireland is in a difficult spot as the UK remains a political freakshow since the Brexit referendum, with the Tories borrowing from the Trump playbook
In a speech to the American Bar Association in Dublin in 2000, Mary Harney, the then Tánaiste and leader of the Progressive Democrats, said Ireland would always be “spiritually closer to Boston than Berlin.”
The Celtic Tiger was hitting its stride at that stage and Ireland was among the fastest-growing economies in the world. Harney’s comment was a not-so-subtle attempt to pit Ireland in the Anglo-Saxon group of economies.
There were obvious reasons for this ...
