Bring back the Brits.

God what a country we have. The one single thing that the stands out from the Ryan Report is that we are no better at running our affairs in the present than we were in the past.

When the British left in 1921 and handed the country over to the IRA, it was a very sad day for Ireland. The clock was turned back and we immediately became a quasi third world country. The British did a good job when they were here; the Irish were reasonably well off by the early part of the twentieth century. By the standards of the time, they lived a good life in a well ordered society. But all that was reversed withing a decade or so.

Our new leaders of state solved their problems by hiding them; we exported our youth, and we brutally locked away our unfortunate and dispossessed. We recruited volunteers to run our education and health systems; basically the priests, the nuns and the brothers. And some of these volunteers got mightily pissed off with their lot in life and turned into savages.

And through those dreadful years from the 1930's onwards, the dogs in the street knew what was going on in the institutions of the new found Irish State. Nobody cared and nobody was prepared to stand up and say that this was wrong. The IRA were so inept at what they were doing. that everyone was totally preoccupied with keeping the wolf from the door. There was no time the less fortunate in life. Is it any wonder that the Unionists had the horrors about joining up with us.

And what is the reaction of modern Ireland? Well true to our hypocritical nature we refuse to accept our guilt and immediately turn our ire towards the remnants of the Religious Orders; the last few remaining men and women who dedicated their lives to Ireland, now in their latter years and lacking the energy to defend themselves. The cowardly Irish, it would make you sick.

We are in a lot of trouble in this dear little country of ours right now. For the past 10 to 15 years we have behaved like children let loose in a candy store, with the result that we are much less fit to face the difficulties of this world than we should be. We can no more control ourselves today than we could in the past. There is only one solution, bring back the Brits!