Ireland is gearing up for its general election this Friday – and what started out as a relatively moribund campaign seems to have finally kicked into gear.
The two main bones of contention remain the housing crisis and immigration. To the frustration of many voters, politicians refuse to accept these issues are linked
A large part of the new energy can be pinned on Simon Harris, Ireland’s TikTok Taoiseach, who has been travelling the highways and byways of Ireland with his own dedicated social media team. Last week, he achieved his obvious aim of going viral, although not for the reasons he would have wanted. When approached on a walkabout by a woman who works as a carer he took a strangely defensive attitude to her complaints and interjected several times, snapping ‘not true’ before abruptly shaking her hand and walking off.
Within a few hours, the gaffe was leading the news bulletins.
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