On Saturday RTE will have wall-to-wall coverage of the coronation of King Charles. It is a terrible decision.
Yet People Before Profit TDs were the only ones to object to this farce in the Dáil.
Richard Boyd Barret TD said “Ireland is a republic and that people here don’t believe in kings and monarchs and inherited power and privilege, particularly when it’s associated with empire, with colonialism, with shocking inequalities between a tiny group who have that inherited power among the royal aristocracy and ordinary people”.
Paul Murphy TD said, “Some republicans are saying that they are going to attend this coronation on the grounds of reaching out to the unionist community.
We think it is perfectly possible and necessary to build a united socialist movement of working-class people from a Catholic background, Protestant background, and a non-religious background, not on the basis of this sort of anachronistic and hated institution, but on the basis of the interests of ordinary people and the need for a socialist Ireland in a socialist world.
Even in Britain only 29% of people think that the monarchy is very important, it’s an increasingly unpopular institution.”
They are talking good sense.
