If it’s not far right to consider a migration pause today, then it never was.
There’s respectable Brit-Bashing, and then there’s “up the ra”.
To pull off the three card trick, you first need some cards on the table.
Perhaps, and here’s a thought, we should not keep doing, in Ireland, what’s not working.
History is littered with examples of civilian bombings or other attacks not working as the attacker might hope.
The broad western policy about the pandemic now, then, is this: Act as if it didn’t happen at all.
And when you have a media that is dependent on the Government for its very existence, how can you trust them to hold that Government to account?
Surely to goodness they can find, before the next election, someone else to carry the flag.
For some reason, Sinn Féin supporters get very upset when it is suggested to them that their party is not a normal one.
Many of us, I think, have arrived at the conclusion that something here is fundamentally wrong. Something is broken.
The Irish President will have a mandate from Northern Irish voters that the Irish Government lacks.
It’s a lot of excitement about, in the end, very little.