Pat Rabbitte: Denigrate all politics and we’ll end up with Trump
Despite what we saw on RTE Investigates last week, politics in Ireland is not rotten to the core
The councillors exposed in the TV programme RTE Investigates should be investigated and, if the evidence stands up, they should be jailed. If the evidence does not stand up, they should be pressured out of politics by their colleagues.
Having said that, we have once again gone completely over the top. Our politics, according to the evolving narrative, is rotten through and through, and the government has deliberately done nothing to clean out ...