If we’re using universality as a benchmark, more people can appreciate the advances in technology facilitated by Linux, Postgres, Git, and WordPress, than they do a lot of art, which can be culturally or linguistically specific, obscure, or highly subjective in general.

Unless you’re talking about very specific art and very specific software, I don’t think universality is a strong argument.

>and software is not.

Linux and thus Android would like to have a word with you.

I mean... if that's the intention it's a bit on the optimistic side. Irish artists as a group, even those who benefit from the artists' tax exemption and various grant schemes, are not exactly known for being pro-government. I'm not sure that artists in any democratic country are; arguably artists being generally pro-government would be a rather bad sign.

Since the entrants are selected randomly, I'd say no.

Ireland has the sanest political system I've ever seen in person.