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.
We now have an allegedly serious political party proposing to make it legal to rob landlords.
At the very core of modern progressivism is a loathing of “western values”.
It is not a secret that there are those in Ireland who wish to remove from parents almost any role in providing sex and relationship guidance to their children.
What does it say about our sense of ourselves as a country that our leaders, by contrast, are expected to fly economy?
We’re going to get a lot of spending pledges, this week. And because Irish politics is Irish politics, a lot of those pledges will be the same as each other.
An act of petty spite, dressed up as a strike for some kind of quasi-religious sense of virtue.
All of this amounts to an enormous Russian humiliation. That, and that alone, is why he is now again bluffing about his willingness to use nuclear weapons.