Fine Gael Government shames Ireland over Catalonia

Queen Bee Syndrome, coined by G.L. Staines, T.E. Jayaratne, and C. Tavris in 1973, is the notion that women who have achieved power in a misogynistic culture don't necessarily help other women do the same.
Stainer et al. ( via Edson) define

the true Queen Bee [as having] made it in the "man's world" of work, while running a house and family with her left hand. "If I can do it without a whole movement to help me," runs her attitude, "so can all those other women.

It seems that this syndrome could be sought of applied to Nations who have won their Independence  deny it to others,

The recognition of a new Independent Nation is not always automatic but  the reluctance to support the new Republic of Catalonia is disappointing.

The argument that the declaration is controversial has not stopped such acts before.

On 14 May 1948 the State of Israel was established by the Israeli Declaration of Independence. The Arab League and Arab countries were opposed to any partition of Palestine and to the establishment of Israel, and took military action against the newly formed state in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

On the declaration of independence, a provisional government of Israel was established; and while military operations were still in progress, the provisional government was promptly recognised by the United States as the de facto authority of Israel, followed by Iran (which had voted against the UN partition plan), Guatemala, Iceland, Nicaragua, Romania, and Uruguay. The Soviet Union was the first country to recognise Israel de jure on 17 May 1948,followed by Nicaragua, Czechoslovakia, Serbia, and Poland.
 The United States extended de jure recognition after the first Israeli election,[
 on 31 January 1949.

So recognition was swift from some quarters but don't expect the same for Catalonia even from Nations that have won their Independence from thier own Imperial powers.
 
 Ireland which surely understand such history more than most will not recognize Catalonia's declaration of independence from Spain, the Department of Foreign Affairs have said.
The political turmoil in Spain intensified on Friday as the Madrid government dismissed Catalonia's president and parliament hours after the region declared independence.
In a statement to media, the department said they are "concerned about the crisis in Catalonia".
The statement said Ireland "does not accept or recognised the Catalan Unilateral Declaration of Independence."
It reads;

 "We are all concerned about the crisis in Catalonia. Ireland respects the constitutional and territorial integrity of Spain and we do not accept or recognise the Catalan Unilateral Declaration of Independence.

"The resolution of the current crisis needs to be within Spain's constitutional framework and through Spain's democratic institutions. Ireland supports efforts to resolve this crisis through lawful and peaceful means." 

 Surely the Fine Gael Government   realise that Spain's "Constitutional  Framework " denies the right of Catalonia to seek Independence.
 

Those who claim that the referendum in Catalonia did not have a mandate because  it was boycotted by Spanish Unionist should explain how Catalonia  can get a Mandate  under a Constitution which forbids them from seeking Independence
 Shame on Ireland for  for not supporting a Nation seeking to break the bonds of an Imperial power just as they did nearly a hundred years earlier

However maybe we could point to the fact that  Fine Gael was founded on 8 September 1933^[following the merger of its parent party Cumann na nGaedheal, the National Centre Party and the National Guard (popularly known as the "Blueshirts", a name still used colloquially to refer to the party).  
 The Blueshirts  was a far-right organisation in the Irish Free State in the early 1930s. The organisation provided physical protection for political groups such as Cumann na nGaedheal from intimidation and attack by the anti-Treaty IRA.^] Some of its members went on to fight for the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War.
 
 I doubt that the refusal  to recognise  Catalonia is linked to Fine Gael past but its worth raising

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