Curiouser and Curiouser.
Chances are, because of the nature of this war, that most of them – and the men who will pilot them – will be gone from this world in a matter of months, and we will be back to square one again.
We’ve gone from a society that sees people’s life choices as dangerous and immoral and something that needs constant denunciation to….. this, I guess.
I confess to being endlessly fascinated by public attitudes in Ireland to the Government Jet,
Honestly, as proposals from politicians go, this is an early – and likely to be hard to beat – contender for worst of the year.
What message is being sent, here, to the hundreds of thousands of children who play Gaelic Games daily, and weekly? Effectively, it seems to be that cheating (whether deliberate or inadvertent) is okay, so long as you don’t get caught or nobody complains.
We are repeating mistakes that have been made by other countries before us.
The ultimate question, to which there is no answer, is “what does Mr. Varadkar want to achieve, exactly?”
The threat the “far right” poses is not to the public, but to the media and the establishment.
For some, this whole process has been emotionally satisfying: There is a hunger, in some quarters, to see somebody, at long last, stand up to the Irish establishment and fight.
In order for there to be any sport in hare coursing, the hare must believe that it is about to die a horrible death.
We often talk – or more accurately, hear talk – about the rise of “extremism” in Ireland. Objectively, the extremism is coming from our own Government.