Many believe Irish to be brave, principled humanists and proud anti-colonialists. For large swathes of the Irish population however it's very different. If you're a free state (and Catholic) rugby dad from Dublin for example, with notions, and a fondness for commenting on everything, your positions on Northern Ireland will be surprisingly further to the right than most right wing bigots anywhere in Reform UK or any KAT Billy Boy from East Belfast.
The wretches who suffer this condition I call Quisligeen = a mash up of the Quisling condition, and then Ignorance (willful or organic) on the subject of NI, and finally Shoneen cowardice for the absence of a backbone due to being an anglophile from suffering intergenerational colonial-slave Stockholm syndrome.
There are those Quisligeens who crave Dublin media middle class respectability like Eoin O'Malley, Eamon Davis Delaney, and religious bigot David Quinn. Then there are NI domiciled Quisligeen, like pretend-bookish Malachi O'Doherty and the Queens academic Liam Kennedy.
They will all knife NI Irish in the back as those Irish are defending themselves against some PUL sectarian depravity that would even make Putin wince.
Then there's the Quisligeen women. The tut-tut, head wobbling Hyacinth Bucket's of free-state treachery: Brenda Power, Mary Kenny, and the Mordor's Saurin of Irish self-hate Eilis O'Hanlon.
So when the Drumcree depravity was forced upon us again by DUP, orange order and a UVF agitator, all the above Quisligeens dug deep to push out a spectacular contortion of logic to blame..... yes you've guessed it - the victims: their own Irish people in NI and their elected Sinn Fein representatives.
Compare that to the conservative UK press, usually fond of a little hiberno-hate. They instead are full-on condemning the disgraceful actions of the orange order...... What a time to be alive.