No more false presentations of Ireland in Print Please - Maureen Lipman's awful article in the Guardian

Do we really need another English attempt to redefine our landscape or culture along English middle-class ideals?

I was sitting in a stained pub on Sunday morning in the home town and the barman was making the pub smell of cheap dinners when I found an article on a visit to Cork by Maureen Lipman. At least she said it was Cork but really I think it was some middle-class daydream of mixing Celtic Mystic Ireland and the cosmopolitan cappachuino Ireland, its all the views (both scenery and viewpoint) perfectly suited to visiting but impossible for living.

After reading this article a few miles from Cork I felt nothing but rejection, how can this Virgil Pastoral exist so near and not exist at all for me. We, the uncovered (not covered at all) Ireland, the majority, lie between the cracks of media perception already, and we certainly don't need an age old attempt at Empire. see Edward Said for details.