Irish view on Iraq war

THE IRISHMAN'S DIARY


This is a news article taken from "The Irish Times" newspaper. The audience this story is written for are sophisticated, middle to upper class, business-types. The writer uses latinate language with long complex sentences, for example, "The first merely proves one thing: the poor creature has an addled pate, which therefore makes joining his party an eminently sound career move." His use of words is not that of everyday language, for example, "the insanity which prompted the blatant and cynical macchiavellianism [sic] of President Chirac." His sentence structure, although at times long and complex, does follow a normal logical pattern like "From Fine Gael, the party which made the Irish Free State, one might have expected rather more measured wisdom."
He comes across to his audience as humorous yet very serious, at one point in his story he is willing to "break with tradition no...