Where has morality gone in the new Ireland?

I thought there was something incongruously innocent about Fianna Fáil's invitation to Robert Putnam to address the party last week. This was the political party most associated with Ireland's remarkable Celtic Tiger economic revolution, pondering the scale of the social crisis beginning to alter radically our lifestyles and our community.

Here they were seated at the feet of one of the US' most persistent critics of the social crisis that wider-spreading wealth is ...