The system, in other words, is practically issuing you with an invitation to defy it, and make it impossible to enforce the law against you.
Sometimes, the need for comforting national stories outweighs the need to face the possibility that the story is wrong. We were all in it together.
It’s not journalism, it’s public relations.
Ireland in 2022 is a mirror image of Ireland in 1952 in almost every single way
Tankies rising.
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.