Major issues are being reduced to three-minute Dáil contributions condensed into 60-second Facebook-friendly videos
Wicklow TD Jennifer Whitmore debating a Dáil motion
Philip Ryan
In an era of eternal attention-seeking by all and sundry, it is fitting that one of the most important issues facing our society is being debated by way of one of the more inane functions of the Dáil.
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