REAL ENEMY CAN ONLY BE SEEN IN THE MIDDLE

There are many who might question the overall governance of the country in general too.

Not finished with kicking the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) about, Micheal then opined about how no child should be lost in the system.

The Fianna Fail leader also spoke of a

THE bitter row over refugees is getting more divisive by the minute.

On the one hand, anyone who expresses the view that those out protesting outside asylum seeker centres could find something more productive to do with their time are being branded as shills for the World Economic Forum.

On the other, anyone who expresses any review and how the HSE was going to get on top of the issue.

It was impressive, tough-talking commentary from a man you would swear had no role to play in any of this whatsoever.

Sure he was only the Taoiseach up until last month – a role he held for a two-year period when child psychiatrists were pointing out repeatedly the lack of supports and treatment for the growing number of kids in need of it.

So it should hardly have come as a shock to Micheal, despite his insistence that very significant investment has been put in over the past decade. Except we know from other areas of our inefficient health system that investment doesn’t guarantee results.

Neither does a Tanaiste standing on the sidelines cribbing about how it’s all going horribly wrong, without accepting any of the responsibility for it. kind of concern over unlimited migration into Ireland are deemed so far right to be right of Hitler.

The problem with these broad and frankly daft generalisations is that they dilute the effectiveness of their argument.

The World Economic Forum is indeed populated by shady shysters trying to enrich themselves at our expense, while there’s little

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doubt that far right groups here are taking advantage of growing unease over asylum seeker centres.

But somewhere in the middle should lie the common ground where ordinary people on both sides take on the real enemy — an establishment order that cares as little for their rights and wellbeing as it does for refugees or anyone elses.