The Irish definition of “diversity” is pretty much the same as it is everywhere else in the western world – it just means “more people from minority ethnic groups, and more gay, lesbian, and transgender people”
It does count, without any doubt, as a social media company actively putting its thumb on the scale of public discussion and debate to influence public policy outcomes.
The idea that we need emergency meetings and colour coded warnings and meteorologists on every news bulletin is nuts. And it is doing no good at all for our national mental health, long term.
A vote not on the constitution, but on policy?
If we are not enforcing the laws that we already have, then we don’t need new ones.
What did they think would happen, had they successfully executed phase one of their plan, and deposed the German Government in Berlin?
You don’t attract more people into a job by making that job a little bit more painful
Imagine for one second that the video which emerged this week were not of a politician, but of a Roman Catholic Bishop. Would the media’s present vow of Omerta hold?
One arm of Government suspended funding to TENI just six weeks ago, based on a failure to produce accounts. And another arm of that same Government, with no apparent regard for the concerns of the Department of Health, has just handed them close to six figures.
Would society survive with only six shopping days per week?
One in ten young people attempting to take their own lives is the kind of headline which makes you sit up straight and pay attention.
I’m far more interested in what pieces like this say about Irish people than I am in what they say about Ireland’s migrant communities.