Michael D Higgins is expected to win the TG4 debate because he has the best command of the Irish language. Therefore it is not a debate. If candidates are already filtered by means of their proficiency in the prescribed means of communication it is not a debate. It is a ball of shite. Who would win a debate conducted in semaphore, or smoke signals or Morse code? Who's to say that these are things we won't also need to know, in due course?
Who out there I wonder will read anything into the results of this debate. “You know I wasn’t sure but when I saw Sean Gallagher using chúaigh when he obviously meant tháinig that sealed it for me. We can’t have a lad that clueless with his verbs in the Park. He won't know whether he's coming or going.“
If it’s a test of Irishness you’re after why not have televised contests to establish who can eat the most macaroon bars in one sitting or a currach making challenge. I fancy Gallagher in both by the way. But I can’t be sure. And I need to be sure.
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