Ambitions for global relevance for our armed forces are not matched even in the slightest little bit by the necessary investment in our armed forces.
Every vote he gets will get him no closer to the Presidency, but gets Fianna Fáil closer to 12.5% and a big cheque.
The result here is peace, on Israel’s terms and on Donald Trump’s. His Irish critics would do well to reflect.
Radio presenters learned there and then that “playing it safe” was the way to keep their jobs, while creating controversy was a way to lose your job.
Perhaps the best way to consider this election is to ask the question: Who are Peter Casey’s 2018 supporters backing now?
If he was my columnist, working for this outlet, he would no longer be writing for us after that performance.
The moment we start convicting people of serious crimes in the court of public opinion without any proof beyond the word of an accuser, we are no better than the people of Salem Massachusetts
But there’s a difference between hoping for an event occurring, which is reasonable, and openly being seen to cheer for that event occurring, which can be foolish.
They’ve come home in glorious failure, and not one single Palestinian has been helped by their antics.
There will come a day when Governments do not have fourteen billion euros to play with. And when that day comes, we will realise just how badly we have spent our cash
The poster boy for “centrist dad” politics finds himself embroiled in an inevitable crisis.
Catherine Connolly might loathe the comparison, but she is benefitting from the same dynamic as Donald Trump