In recent days, our newly minted “law-and-order” Taoiseach, a man who has inherited a range of profound challenges, chose to grandstand on something about as critical to the nation’s well-being as another Leinster title is to Dublin’s dominance of Gaelic football.   Straight out of the Bertie Ahern populist politics manual, Simon Harris weighed into the minor controversy that the GAA’s pay-per-view platform, GAAGO, was the only place to watch the Limerick-Cork Munster hurling final. The fact that the experienced Micheál Martin followed suit was depressing. The two most senior members of government gave grim-faced testimonials to the unique importance of…

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