DUBLIN

ISRAEL AND DONALD Trump have released so much moral indignation in Ireland that telling the rest of mankind what it should be doing has begun to overtake foreign tech and pharma as the key growth sector in the Irish economy.

“It’s in danger of becoming a bubble,” says Aonghus Kneehigh, a senior research fellow at the Hot Air Institute based in Dublin. “We haven’t seen this kind of expansion since the property collapse after the fall of Lehman Brothers. There seems to be a self-perpetuating chain reaction taking place, which if not controlled could see our little country crushed by its own moral indignation. Israel sparked the latest round of condemnation, but Donald Trump’s actions have supercharged it. Even the most weasel-like hypocrite, if they express outrage at the American President’s actions, has seen their stock soar, and to such an extent that they are moving beyond the normal boundaries of mouthing off, risking actual consequences. This is where it gets dangerous. And then there’s the moral outrage derivatives market. That is frankly scary. This is moral outrage of moral outrage. The futures markets are off the scale there. Frankly, there is far more moral outrage out there than there are objects of that outrage. Hang on to the moral high ground or you will fall off.”