Conundrum

"An Irish Solution to an Irish Problem" is commonly used in Ireland as a derogatory expression. This has always puzzled me: does it indicate a continuing national inferiority complex ? Are we supposed to think that, say, an English solution to Irish problems is more appropriate ?

Now, I do remember that this usage derives from Charlie Haughey's description of a particular step in the slow legalisation of contraception, but this does not seem to me to adequately explain the phenomenon.

Church & State magazine says (at page 4):

It is often said that the freedom of the press is required to preserve democracy, but in Ireland the press is undermining democracy. It is not conducted to support a democratic political culture, but to demoralise the public and leave the State vulnerable to manipulation by globalist interests.

There is some evidence for this, and not just in Ireland.