It’s Time to Show ‘Official Ireland’ the Door

Much of the malaise that Dominic Green describes in his oped “Ireland Is a Wounded Tiger” (Dec. 8) can be explained by the sad fact that Ireland has one of the least competitive political systems in the “free” world.

- DECLAN GANLEY

Irish presidents are essentially figureheads, yet the country’s political establishment still pulled out all the stops in this year’s election to ensure that elected officials at the national, county and local levels didn’t endorse conservative ca