Declan Lynch: If you don’t like the woke, just wait until you see the unwoke

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Declan Lynch

So that’s it then? The big problem in Irish public life is that everything has gone too “woke”? That after Leo and the referendums debacle it’s time for all sensible people to do… eh...whatever is the opposite of “woke”? And that “woke” here means whatever Danny Healy-Rae or Peadar Tóibín or Ronan Mullen or ­Michael McDowell says it means?

I don’t think so — despite the political and media stampede in that general direction. I don’t think that this would be a good idea at all. In fact it would be a bad idea.