I have just read an article on the blog Sinead O’Connor-Now. What is it with her? Most times in her wayward way she hits the nail on the head. Read the article yourself. See if, like me, you find yourself agreeing with the case she makes. See if you answer YES to the questions raised.
Do we need a spiritual reawaking in this country?
In the absence of real political, NATIONAL leadership do we need our sleeping troubadours to hit the roads with their protest songs and their poems for the disadvantaged?
Do we need to reach back to that touchstone of Nationhood which we have buried in the rubble of civic demolition and Celtic tiger quarries, out of which only the poison of Pyrite is notable?
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Do we need, once and for all, to cut out the semantic shite of the guarded State and the religious orders in this country and teach them what sorry really means; teach them what justice really means; teach them what recompense really means; and more importantly, teach them the true meaning of the Beatitudes?
If fifty per cent of you answers YES to two of these questions and the other fifty per cent of you answers YES to the other two questions, then it is time for a real debate. Not the now-speak ‘conversation’ which is currently ‘going forward’ and getting nowhere; but a genuine, all embracing, no-holds-barred debate about who we really are as a people and where we want to get to. (I know the last sentence finishes on a preposition but English is not Latin and Ireland is NOT Rome and we are supposed to be a Sovereign People.)
So, as to Sinead O’Connor? Well, you started it.
