The courts in this country are supposed to make decisions based on the facts of the arguments presented to them – not the manner in which those arguments are made, or the facts in separate cases
On facebook, underneath this post, there will be an official message from facebook urging you to seek out trustworthy vaccine information.
This is the question on which his record at the helm of the state finances must be judged.
A panicked political class is running out of alternative ideas, and when in doubt, they go back to what’s worked for them before.
He gives you what you want, not what you need.
Everything else is a secondary consequence of the original silly decision.
There are many, many legitimate questions which ought to be asked of the vaccine manufacturers.
The problem – and let’s speak this plainly – is that establishment Ireland, or what passes for it, is now a jabbering, simpering, clueless wreck.
This is the thing about rights. Courts, ultimately, decide how far, or how little, they range.
And indeed, people who would turn their faces away aghast from such rhetoric, coming from an angry truck driver with a megaphone, will instead nod soberly when it comes from a genteel columnist
In Ireland, the media’s job, very often, is to hide the key facts of a story. Rathkeale, this week, is exhibit A.
Think of the facemasks not as a tool to prevent disease, but the human version of the dog’s electric shock collar