It was a speech for the hardcore Fine Gaeler, the kind of person who looks at the party’s record in Government and wonders why the rest of us seem so bloody lacking in gratitude.
All that the constitution says on the matter is that war shall not be declared, and no war shall be participated in, save with the consent of the Dáil.
Think about it, and maybe say it aloud really slowly to yourself: We’re having a warm November because I am drinking too much tea.
Eventually, the Kremlin hopes, someone will crack, and push Ukraine to negotiate for a peace that allows Putin to come away with some kind of win.
The Government will not lose a single net vote by banning it. Still, that does not make it right.
He’s effectively taken a public communications channel used by the Government, and turned it into his own personal private asset for use in his own personal private business.
If British couples had done this to Irish people during the famine, we would have a national memorial to the lost babies, and Sinn Féin would call it genocide.
Once again, the voters just don’t seem to make any sense.
the absence of a SIPO investigation is not, in any way, shocking.
When women don’t hold up their end of the “deal”, a lot of “good” progressive men suddenly no longer feel as if they need to hold up theirs, and so it’s okay to joke about women maybe being whores again.
The general assumption of pro-neutrality people in Ireland tends to be that because the threats to us are so low, defence is really not a requirement.
He would have had sight of this case, and access to the court documents, long before he heard it.