As Ireland gets steadily older, the health services will come to play an increasingly large role in our lives.
Despite strict donation laws, Sinn Fein is fabulously wealthy. How?
Are we really independent?
Peter Mair’s insights
While leaders like Charles Haughey and Garret FitzGerald bestrode the national stage as political and intellectual giants, today Micheál Martin and Simon Harris work hard to imitate leadership.
Echoing our own Fiscal Advisory Council, The Economist concluded that “Governments are living far beyond their means.”
At long last, the doom-mongers are facing sustained and active challenge.
“The things which happen most promptly and efficiently in Ireland tend to happen inside factories operated by Americans.”
The biggest reason why Harris should have avoided Finance is that Prudent Paschal was not in the least bit prudent.
Losing your job happens often in the private sector but very seldom in the public sector.
Democratic revolt needed
Ireland’s moral compass has shifted from church to state, replacing belief with policy and duty with entitlement.