Do you want some good news on St Patrick’s Day? Course you don’t

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The Taoiseach meets Trump: ‘Your addiction to the drama of Trump 2.0 is not your fault alone. Doom-scrolling is a feature of late-stage capitalism.’ Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire Do you want some good news? About the rude health of Irish democracy? No? I didn’t think so. Being human, you privilege bad news. That is why you can’t take your eyes off Donald Trump. Reader, you are in a dysfunctional long-distance relationship with an orange clown. Unfortunately, he is in a dysfunctional long-distance relationship with the truth. Every time he opens his mouth, some poor fact expires. But what a mouth!...