Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window

‘My father carried Michael Collins’s coffin, and there’s not many around this country today that can say the same thing!’

Sliding Doors

SUNDAY

It’s barely dawn in Dun Laoghaire as I set off for Castlebar for the count in the Midlands North-West constituency in the 2024 European Parliament elections. I have no idea how I’ve done, not the faintest clue. I’ve been driving my metaphorical jalopy across this vast territory for several weeks now, and my sole means of seeing ahead …