We’re going to keep calling it Monkeypox, here at Gript, regardless of what the WHO decides. Not because we want to stigmatise anybody, but because this, like so much of the world at the moment, is unutterably stupid.
Perhaps, in that respect, all the media bashing of Sinn Fein down the years has been to the party’s benefit. After all, they’ve gotten as far as they have without worrying about what Shona Murray writes on twitter.
Anyway, it wouldn’t work in Ireland. First, you’d never get planning permission
We should, where possible, leave sympathy and compassion to people, and not mandate it by law.
This outlet is receiving state funding to inform the public, and carry out “fact checks”. That money is being disgracefully mis-spent.
When politicians get into “building a legacy” mode, that’s when they’re at their most dangerous to their colleagues.
That is the whole point of these sessions, at the end of the day: They are intended to train you how to think, and how to behave.
Almost all political energy these days is expended not on serving people, but on fixing them.
This is an example, frankly, not of some great conspiracy to do away with cash, but of a bank making a short-sighted business decision.
If the world’s only hope is net zero, then the world has no hope at all.
If there’s a lesson to learn from Putin, it is in the value of governing in your national self interest.
In Ireland we do not have open debate. Often, we do not even have the pretence of it.