Has Ireland gone mad?

Water protesters protest around Tanaiste Joan Burton 's car.

Bullets in the post. Bomb warnings. Death threats. The Jobstown water protest as “an exercise in fascist intimidation”. A democratically elected TD acting as a hostage negotiator for the deputy leader of the country. The Taoiseach’s description of Joan Burton’s confinement to her car as “almost amounting to a kidnapping”.

The Dáil adjourned because of Mary Lou MacDonald’s sit-in. The Dáil adjourned because minister Alan Kelly ...