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Patrick Murphy: Trump has brought us back to the Dark Ages, but has Ireland the courage to choose the light?
We have just gone back one thousand years.Welcome to a return of the Dark Ages.They were described as the Dark Ages (about 500 AD to 1200 AD) because society was marked by ignorance, intolerance, ...