This past week, two relics of the International Monetary Fund’s Irish based puppet government of 2011 disgraced themselves by trying to scapegoat religion for their failings.
One, a former Catholic school principal Aodhan O’Riordain made headlines around the world with an Ian Paisley like torrent of abuse that climaxed with a skin curling rallying cry of ‘LET’S GET THEM OUT!’
O’Riordain’s party had infamously brutalised Irish families with the IMF’s crushing austerity measures during the early 2010s, causing many women and children to become homeless.
Meanwhile, another relic of that government who did not have the decency to depart from politics afterwards, Roisin Shortall, became the laughing stock of Europe in the past fortnight when her efforts to remove God from the Presidential Oath were thrown out of the ECHR. Shortall’s party, the Social Democrats, have very little to offer the people of Ireland other than to badger Catholics and to blame them for problems that Shortall’s government created in 2011. In recent years, they have suggested government regulation of the Sacrament of Confession and of sexual education, but only in Catholic schools.
In a new poll published today by Red C, the Social Democrats have fallen 1% from 6% to 5% support. Labour have fallen from 5% to 4%. While these may seem like small numbers, micro parties such as these can lose some of the very limited numbers of seats based upon such differences.
What these polls show is that the public see through the efforts of Alan Kelly and Roisin Shortall to rewrite recent Irish history. They also show that ordinary Irish people are aware of the extensive damage to the education system by the IMF’s puppet government and do not trust its legacy politicians who are still trying to use the church as a scapegoat for their own mistakes.
