All examples welcome.
Noted by SonofStan from yesterday's Irish Times:
Ireland is a small country, never more so than on weeks like this. The fall from grace of RTÉ's golden boy, "Tubs", has been jaw-dropping. But behind the persona is an individual in an isolated place. Speak to some of his colleagues and there is an element of sympathy for the lonely and pressurised situation in which he finds himself this week. But they also struggle to see the circumstances that will facilitate a return to RTÉ's airwaves.
Others raise a similar view. Today Shane Coleman in the Business Post suggests that...
Whatever the reason, it was an extraordinary miscalculation.
But that is what it was – a miscalculation, a mistake. None of us gets through life without making them. Yet this weekend, he is a pariah. A few weeks ago, Tubridy probably couldn't stroll down Grafton Street without being mobbed by well-wishers and selfie-seekers. Today, a similar journey would undoubtedly involve abuse.
Such is modern life, where everything is black and white. Where people go from heroes to villains, from champions to chumps, from messiahs to anti-Christs – lionised and then vilified.
Mistakes and human failings are simply not forgiven.
Some 'miscalculation'!
Someone today is sure we're...
We're facing a wave of 'thoughtcrime'
In The Irish Times Stephen Collins spoke of the trajectory of Yanis Varoufakis and how the MeRA25 party lost its nine seats at the most recent Greek General Election and he sees this as a vindication for the route this state took during the crisis and a warning about those who here looked ago Syriza or Varoufakis for inspiration. He writes:
Maybe there is a lesson in all of this for Irish voters tempted to opt for radical and simplistic solutions to complex economic problems.
Even he can't help but note in passing that those who did eventually impose that austerity in Greece, those being Syriza, and after six months did the 'right' thing as he saw it, were turfed out of office in 2019 and lost half their representation this time. So precisely what lesson is he suggesting people take?
Finally Finn McRedmond in The Irish Times suggests that in relation to Britain:
There is a whiff of exceptionalism here. Of course, it is not a universal truth that all English people are weird. There are – as far as I can tell – as many normal people here as anywhere else. But it is a place uniquely accommodating of the strange and the renegade. What better way to be reminded of that than with an old man in a reflective gold suit, orange sunglasses, singing a tribute to Princess Diana to a crowd of 120,000 people on Sunday night? There was nothing conventional about it.
Indeed. So where was Elton John two days later on the 25th? Accor Arena in presumably uniquely accommodating Paris, and not just the 25th but the 27th and the 28th. The previous week he was in uniquely accommodating Glasgow, Scotland, in May he was Belgium, Barcelona, Cologne, and back in March he played two nights in Dublin and one in Belfast. Uniquely accommodating.
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