Anti-Semitic slurs spray-painted on an Irish highway. A heavily pregnant Jewish woman verbally abused by a doctor as she awaited an emergency Caesarian section. A young student beaten up in a nightclub because he was wearing the Star of David. And a mother of two dragged out of a Holocaust memorial event for daring to protest, silently, against a diatribe about Israeli actions in Gaza delivered on one of the holiest days in the Jewish year.
Significant events, you might think. Enough to prompt a prolonged bout of national heart-searching.
Instead, what preoccupied protesters outside the Irish parliament in Dublin this week
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