Lucinda Creighton: The TDs who cold-shouldered Zelenskyy have embarrassed the nation
The four deputies’ refusal to applaud the Ukrainian president’s Dáil address last week laid bare the left’s sympathies for despots and dictators
The decision of four Irish TDs to “protest” on the occasion of an address to the Irish parliament by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the leader of Ukraine, was completely inappropriate, but it should have come as no surprise.
It showed how some politicians are willing to embarrass Ireland on the world stage in order to cynically gain attention for their particular political ideology. The aim of Wednesday’s stunt was to be the story, and steal the limelight ...
