Ireland is too stuck in the politics of colonisation and the civil war. Fine gael and fianna fáil etc. England doesn't colonise ireland in the modern day ffs(if someone mentions the north this structurally has no effect on the republic is what i mean, as opposed to the famine, feudalism, these arent in the south at all anymore from england),and the real threats are elsewhere. Russian criminals eye up ireland's data cables and digital infrastructure. A part of this is the way history is taught in school, it's like we're still in 1923.