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.
Killarney is now a “rent pressure zone”, which means, amongst other things, that it is illegal to engage in short term lettings to tourists.
You do not have to like him to agree with this, you simply need to recognise that three things are true.
40 grand for cutting your bum makes a joke of justice.
It’s hard to write about Irish politics, these days, while hiding the utter contempt which it tends to inspire, at least in this writer.
Putting Richard Boyd Barrett’s ideas about the housing market into practice is a lot like putting an eight year old at the wheel of a formula one car.
The truth is, nobody knows what these exams are for, any more. And increasingly, it seems, Government doesn’t care.
And yes, by the way, it’s still time to impeach Martin Nolan, and remove him from the bench.