Yesterday on this blog Tom O’Gorman attacked Mary O’Rourke for smearing any and all critics of the proposed children’s rights referendum without so much  as pausing to consider their arguments. (So much for reasoned debate). Today John Waters makes much the same point in his Irish Times column.

One passage in his column is particularly apt: “O’Rourke, who chaired the cross-party committee that produced the amendment proposal, is entitled to argue for constitutional change. But she is not entitled to present this amendment as incontrovertibly beneficial or to cast aspersions on the legitimacy or bona fides of those contributing to the discussion on the other side. ‘Everyone’s entitled to their opinion,’ she said, ‘but opinion based on fact, not opinion based on fantasy.’ Translation: ‘Everyone is entitled to an opinion provided it’s the same as mine.’”

You can read the whole column here.