Protestants

There’s a very funny piece here about one possible reason for Sinn Féin’s recent bad showing in the elections in Ireland. And, as some of the commenters point out, it’s probably not far from the truth. Unlike lily-livered states such as Israel, in Ireland we didn’t content ourselves just with ethnically cleansing our pesky national minority during our War of Independence, we made damn sure to keep encouraging them to leave afterwards too. As a result we now have an ethnically and religiously homogenous population and feel able to pontificate to other states about their human rights records.