The odd thing is, of course, that O’Connell’s argument that Rowling could just, well, shut up, doesn’t seem to apply in her mind to other women who also suffer abuse as a result of airing their views in public.
Once you become a pensioner, it is, in effect, no longer your problem
This may be the last opportunity the country ever has to get answers from the man who effectively ran the country for two of its most troubled years.
This is a political choice by the Irish Government to directly inflict economic hardship on a sector of its own economy, and all of the people who rely on that sector of the economy for their income.
Leo Varadkar was right about this one – it was political theatre, not real opposition.
If Republican voters were simply choosing on policy, then the choice would be relatively clear.
The original test act, just like this modern one, had a simple animating origin: Fear.
By eschewing debate and, indeed, democracy itself, Una is effectively arguing that the opinions of the little people should not matter.
We live in a country now where you can sexually assault an eleven year old girl and get a suspended sentence.
The million new houses policy did stand out, though, for one reason: It was pretty much the only “bread and butter” thing that Labour could come up with.
It is perhaps too often ignored that the fact that Joanne Hayes and her family were falsely accused of murder also means that somebody else, for almost four decades, has gotten away with murder.
In this case, as so often, it appears as if some in the media seem to have come to believe that their job is to hide the news