Israeli singer Yuval Raphael representing Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song “New Day Will Rise”. Photo: Eurovision. There is a troubling aspect to civic discourse that is getting progressively worse. As a constituency, we (the Irish public, the ‘western’ public) seem increasingly less able to disagree without falling out, or to hold nuanced or contextualised positions on almost any aspect of civic engagement. This degeneration of discussion is in part fuelled by…
