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Sunday, 19 February 2012. Not a producer of opium, and with its church discredited after the industrial schools scandal, what better illusory happiness for the Irish than alcohol? Keeping up the illusion. Why else is the Irish government making moves to scupper its own initiative. Do they prefer us pissed? When foreigners ask me to explain .