Sometimes the truth hurts. Very often people don’t want the truth, even when they say they do. Take the south of Ireland where very clearly people don’t want to hear about the austerity measures that must take effect to rebuild the economy.
Brian Cowen is taking a beating in the polls because he is ‘telling it [...]
In the last century the English press characterised the Irish as drunken wastrels who were always fighting with each other and anyone else they could find. Punch magazine gave the Irish the most unflattering of caricatures, usually ape-like, wielding shillelaghs and trying to steal.
How it must have made the English chattering classes and gentry laugh. [...]