Last weekend, Ireland elected as its next president a leftwing pacifist in the latest example of how Ireland has bucked the global trends of rightwing populism.
This was not a parliamentary election – although Catherine Connolly, an independent…

Last weekend, Ireland elected as its next president a leftwing pacifist in the latest example of how Ireland has bucked the global trends of rightwing populism.
This was not a parliamentary election – although Catherine Connolly, an independent…