The names you have read in relation to this story in whatsapp groups and on facebook pages are, by definition, almost certainly wrong.
Michael D is who we want to be. The Government is who we are.
That’s the problem, in Ireland: If you could convince an Irish politician that burning the whole country down was the grown-up thing to do, and that it was in line with best international practice, they’d do it.
On some of the issues where the Government is most vulnerable – energy prices, refugees, crime, and so on – the opposition has no punch to throw.
That is one of the problems with the chatterati in general: We’re not accountable, properly.
He knew only that he had to defend himself, and his mother. He was 17. He picked up the nearest weapon, and used it.
You’ll never beat the Irish establishment if your starting point is that you’re better and more patriotic than they are.
They can’t give those young people a house, but they can give them house music until 6am.
The criminals in Ireland are not our oppressors, but our victims.
Being welcoming to migrants is not just a political view in Ireland, but something deeply engrained on our national self-image.
It’s not actually shocking, it’s just deadly dull.
Ireland has a Government whose mouth writes cheques its ass can’t cash.