Contextual Healing

And we can see them clearly in our mind’s eye – the historians toiling to construct the appropriate narrative for the past fifteen years of the island story. Fifteen years into which so much has been packed. Fifteen years that, if dramatized, could easily be called The Rise and Fall of Paddy.

But the historians, the academics or the professors would not dare be so flippant when grappling with such weighty matters as sovereignty and self determination. No these lads will labour fruitlessly to formulate suitably leaden and impenetrable language for what has befallen the Republic.

And what I am proposing here is to save everyone a boat load of bother. I propose to be pithy and precise with regard to the lessons thrown up by the contortions of our recent history.

Shout it from the rooftops, teach it in the classrooms, put it on the Twitter - don’t give Paddy any money of his own or create conditions whereby he has access to anyone else’s. And that will be a mighty fine start going forward.