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There are weeks when Ireland feels like a country arguing with itself in public, and this has been one of them. From the Dáil chamber to the local WhatsApp group, everyone seems to have an opinion, and almost none of them agree.
The flashpoints are familiar. Housing, immigration, the cost of a weekly shop, the state of the health service, and the sneaking feeling that the people in charge are running just slightly behind the curve on every one of them.
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Yet the mood on the ground is more complicated than the headlines suggest. Talk to people in Sligo, Waterford or Athlone and you hear something the polls rarely capture: exhaustion, yes, but also a stubborn insistence that things can still be fixed.
That gap, between the noise at the top and the patience at the bottom, is where the next few years of Irish politics will actually be decided. Whoever bridges it, in any party, gets to write the story.
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