In the realm of international affairs, most time was spent in the last Dáil after October 7, 2023 by both the government and all opposition parties engaged in a repetitive orgy of relentless demonizing of Israel with occasional ritual references to the plight of the hostages
A form of political amnesia set in, resulting in initial government condemnation of the Hamas pogrom of October 7 being rapidly replaced by a cross-party narrative of Israel for no reason arbitrarily bombing and killing civilians in Gaza, in particular children and then repeating its conduct in Lebanon
This replicated a narrative popularised by various Irish media outlets, including RTE Ireland’s state-funded national TV and radio broadcaster and favored by Ireland’s student unions and trade union movement, including its National Union of Journalists
