Local Man Breathlessly Warning Against Trump No Idea What’s Going On In Irish Politics
A LOCAL WATERFORD man who hasn’t paused to take a breath in the last 48 hours during impassioned rants about US president Donald Trump has little to no knowledge of all or any political goings on in Ireland, WWN can reveal.
It will come as a surprise to 26-year-old Sean O’Neill that Ireland elects a new Taoiseach today when his US-heavy social media feeds are briefly interrupted with political news from Ireland.
Devouring and disseminating every nugget of information emanating from the US, O’Neill has dominated pub conversations and work lunches with lengthy lectures.
“He interrupted me when I was saying how hard it is to get my autistic child supports in school by telling me all about the Trump crypto rug-pull and how something needs to be done,” said one growing-impatient friend of O’Neill.
Such is O’Neill’s fixation on the goings on in America, he is knowledgeable on a number of legal challenges to Trump executive orders making their way through US courts but can’t name his constituency’s TDs.
“I’m slowly trying to make him aware he lives in Ireland. I tell him things like ‘did you know Trump failed to enact 49 recommendations to improve electoral law’ and when he begins his rant about why that’s a disgrace I tell him ‘actually that’s something the government in Ireland did’,” explained O’Neill’s girlfriend Sam Duane.
“Then there was ‘Trump did a deal with a convicted criminal to get into power’ but I told him it’s Micheál Martin and Michael Lowry. He didn’t like that bait and switch at all at all but you just have to hope some of it subconsciously seeps into his brain until one day he expends energy on politics here and how it effects us day to day,” added Duane.
It is believed O’Neill isn’t alone in finding Irish politics, filled with headlines such as ‘former Fine Gael politician arrested over human trafficking’, ‘Ex Sinn Féin leader ordered killing of mother of 10’, ‘Government refuses to pay back €12bn it robbed from people in nursing homes’ and ‘Private businesses enriched by State paying them billions to house refugees’, rather boring and unimportant.