Could Ireland benefit from its own Count Binface?

OpinionSurrealing in the Years Bear with me, here. SOMETIMES THERE’S SIMPLY no choice but to pay attention to what’s happening across the Irish Sea. Other times, the architect of Brexit and the rise of the far-right in Britain, who’s under investigation for a £5million donation he received from a crypto billionaire, is in a byelection for his own seat, against a man with a bin on his head who calls himself Count Binface, and it would actually be really easy to not pay attention. And yet, here we are. In the end, Reform leader Nigel Farage comfortably defeated the Count in Clacton by over 36 percentage points, putting an end to one of the most meaningless distractions in recent history. He was never going to lose, of course, or come anywhere close. In 2024, Farage chose Clacton precisely be