{"id":55997,"date":"2025-10-01T23:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T23:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/55997\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T23:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T23:25:07","slug":"is-it-not-time-for-ireland-to-grow-up-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/55997\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIs it not time for Ireland to grow up?\u201d \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Sir, \u2013 I am writing in relation to Fintan O\u2019Toole\u2019s article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/2025\/09\/30\/fintan-otoole-catherine-connolly-should-try-to-keep-her-inner-basil-fawlty-under-wraps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/2025\/09\/30\/fintan-otoole-catherine-connolly-should-try-to-keep-her-inner-basil-fawlty-under-wraps\/\">Catherine Connolly should keep her inner Basil Fawlty under wrap<\/a>s\u201d (September 30th). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">While O\u2019Toole tried to convince us that Catherine Connolly had said something outrageous about Germany, his logic failed to impress. In fact, he held up a mirror to the colonial mindset that continues to blight progress for people in Ireland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">O\u2019Toole argues that Germany had our back during Covid and because of that we should be happy to tuck quietly into Europe and give no one cause for concern. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Can I put it to him that this is not the essence of a healthy relationship. Is it not time for Ireland to grow up; to be responsive to the needs of our people and at the same time be proud Europeans? <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Otherwise, we risk losing the birthright of all our young people and future generations. \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">GERALDINE SIMMIE,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Furbo, <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Co Galway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 I am writing in relation to Fintan O\u2019Toole\u2019s article \u201cCatherine Connolly should keep her inner Basil&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,39639,43],"class_list":["post-55997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-letter-of-the-day","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}