It doesn’t matter who wins the Irish elections – the country will remain an outpost of Brussels
Dublin
There is something tragically irrelevant about the elections taking place this weekend in Ireland. In recent months, Ireland has felt less like a country and more like the first acquisition of the Reborn Frankish Empire, after the Central European Bank and the IMF in effect took over day-to-day management of Irish affairs.
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