{"id":7506,"date":"2020-03-03T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=7506"},"modified":"2020-03-03T12:00:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T12:00:24","slug":"the-continuing-story-of-oglaigh-na-heireann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2020\/03\/03\/the-continuing-story-of-oglaigh-na-heireann\/","title":{"rendered":"The Continuing Story of \u00d3glaigh na h\u00c9ireann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Continuing Story of \u00d3glaigh na h\u00c9ireann<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All around the snot-nosed parishes of Ireland<br \/>\nsmall people of both genders, and neither,<br \/>\nare flapping open<br \/>\ncopies of <em>The Sunday O\u2019Duffy<br \/>\n<\/em>getting worried<br \/>\nabout the continued existence<br \/>\nof the Citizen Army, Fenian Brotherhood,<br \/>\nOfficial IRA.<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t have<br \/>\nparties who perspire to government<br \/>\nsecretly controlled by cabals<br \/>\nof men (and ladies) whose faces<br \/>\nwe never see; apart from those<br \/>\nfaces prescribed by prevailing winds<br \/>\nand the agreed rules<br \/>\nof the European Union,<br \/>\nwhich we need never see<br \/>\nbut rest eternally assured<br \/>\nare there. Or thereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>The only weaponry allowed<br \/>\nthose seeking elected office<br \/>\nare five piece suits to help little<br \/>\nmen appear substantial,<br \/>\nand no more than six<br \/>\nplastic chairs on which the faithful can<br \/>\nevery other month gather<br \/>\nto recite the Our Father,<br \/>\nor discuss the rising<br \/>\nprice of sewage. Even<\/p>\n<p>the Social Democrats must come clean<br \/>\nabout the continued non-existence<br \/>\nof their army council, and what role precisely<br \/>\nFintan O\u2019Toole plays in its<br \/>\nmilitary high command.<\/p>\n<p>A mature democracy like ours<br \/>\nneeds parties whose manifestos<br \/>\npolitical correspondents<br \/>\nwith excellent haircuts (and none) can safely<br \/>\nspread across their living room floors<br \/>\nand roll around naked on<br \/>\nwithout fear of being interrupted<br \/>\nby men and women wearing<br \/>\nillegally held<br \/>\nbalaclavas.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/cassandra-voices\/the-continuing-story-of-oglaigh-na-heireann-by-kevin-higgins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Continuing Story of \u00d3glaigh na h\u00c9ireann All around the snot-nosed parishes of Ireland small people of both genders, and neither, are flapping open copies of The Sunday O\u2019Duffy getting worried about the continued existence of the Citizen Army, Fenian Brotherhood, Official IRA. We can\u2019t have parties who perspire to government secretly controlled by cabals &#8230; <a title=\"The Continuing Story of \u00d3glaigh na h\u00c9ireann\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2020\/03\/03\/the-continuing-story-of-oglaigh-na-heireann\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Continuing Story of \u00d3glaigh na h\u00c9ireann\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":7508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3325,6789,9298],"class_list":["post-7506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-fintan-otoole","tag-oglaigh-na-heireann","tag-the-sunday-oduffy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}