Ireland: an obituary

Despite this blog being dead for a considerable time I thought it only proper to log in and express condolences at the passing of a (perhaps) once great (but mostly abortive) nation.

Courageous in the face of its long-term and crippling disability - an incapability since the middle ages to put petty personal differences aside in favour of the common welfare - Ireland suffered more than once the indignity of being subject to its neighbours; calling on the French, the British, the Germans and the Americans multiple times to bail it out and right its incapability to look after itself.

At some vague point in the earlier half of the twentieth century, Ireland did at least declare, if not successfully enact, its independence from all other nations.

Eventually though, dogged by its own apparently incurable handicaps, Ireland succumbed - in the end clinging on to life only through the sheer power of delusion and denial.

North Korean nuclear submarines set out for Ireland on Friday, to bomb all of its major centres of population from Cork to Belfast and wipe this likeable but terminally-idiotic nation from the face of evolution - thus sparing the rest of humanity any further embarrassment at having to share species categorisation with it.

God speed.

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The true ignominy of our current situation is not that our sovereignty has been taken away from us, it is that we ourselves have squandered it. Let us not seek to assuage our sense of shame in the comforting illusion that powerful nations in Europe are conspiring to become our masters. We are, after all, no great prize for any would-be overlord now. No rational European would willingly take on the task of cleaning up the mess we have made. It is the incompetence of the governments we ourselves elected that has so deeply compromised our capacity to make our own decisions.

Irish Times