I confess to being endlessly fascinated by public attitudes in Ireland to the Government Jet,
Honestly, as proposals from politicians go, this is an early – and likely to be hard to beat – contender for worst of the year.
What message is being sent, here, to the hundreds of thousands of children who play Gaelic Games daily, and weekly? Effectively, it seems to be that cheating (whether deliberate or inadvertent) is okay, so long as you don’t get caught or nobody complains.
We are repeating mistakes that have been made by other countries before us.
The ultimate question, to which there is no answer, is “what does Mr. Varadkar want to achieve, exactly?”
The threat the “far right” poses is not to the public, but to the media and the establishment.
For some, this whole process has been emotionally satisfying: There is a hunger, in some quarters, to see somebody, at long last, stand up to the Irish establishment and fight.
In order for there to be any sport in hare coursing, the hare must believe that it is about to die a horrible death.
We often talk – or more accurately, hear talk – about the rise of “extremism” in Ireland. Objectively, the extremism is coming from our own Government.
Which makes me wonder – and “bear” with me here – whether it might not be time to take a second look at wolves and other predators?
Mr. Wall, after all, could have a pristine, totally clear criminal record, and he would not have been on RTE if his song was entitled “immigration is too high”.
Forgive me for saying this, but personally, I’d rather live in a country with a small bit of corruption, and competently delivered public services, rather than the other way around.