today they said

Seamus Martin (Writing in the Irish Times): "The Russians are clinging to Putin for fear of what might come next."
James Healy (Snarling at the Irish Times over a muffin in Starbucks, Dawson Street): "The only reason the Russians are clinging to Putin is because he has terrorised them into silence, resovietised their country, taken control of the broadcast meda, and murdered or imprisoned his opponents. The lack of a free media in Russia and the appalling leftist pseudery of Western media generally prevents anyone outside the country from knowing whether Russians are clinging to Putin or not. My money is on NOT. Seamus Martin wouldn't be the most objective judge of these matters. As a political editor with the Irish Times he spent the Cold War rooting for the Russians. I and others have postulated that he may have been a fully fledged KGB agent. It would explain a lot. Including his palatial retirement to Paris, France. Seamus is of course the brother of Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin whom I have also suggested is a Soviet era infiltrator of the Catholic Church."