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I've never liked Irish politics. To me its two factions that were put at logger heads by the battle of the Boyne (1690) - itself a quasi religious dynastic war that was about the balance of power in northern Europe. There it seems to have stayed, whilst the rest of the world endured real wars, huge bombs, cities wiped out, starving refugees. Whilst this island bickered at the edge of the world about a sense of belonging that elsewhere has been largely diluted over a dozen generations but more significantly in that period several different races and cultures in many places. A pity Ireland didn't lose its anchor and bump into France or north Africa maybe Estonia. How it would have grown up.