If you want progressive preaching and sermonising, it’s very hard to out-Bacik Ivana Bacik.
We don’t do things by halves, in Ireland – no mild experiment with Blairism for us. If we go left, we’re going to go proper left.
We have no problem recognising that alcohol, tobacco, and gambling are bad for us. And yet in not one of those pursuits is a young person violently humiliated for the entertainment of others.
The vastly more likely alliance for Ireland to join is, of course, an EU common defence.
The number one rule for people who think as the President does is that when Islamic extremists attack, the west must be to blame.
Even if you ultimately favour Ukraine joining the EU, it should be because Ukrainian membership is good for the EU. Not because EU membership is good for Ukraine.
One might think, that, if the prospect of fuel shortages in six or eight months is a reasonable possibility, that Government would be preparing strategic countermeasures now.
Three former contestants have died by suicide.
It’s the contrast between a country that takes politics seriously, and a country in which nobody, nobody at all, takes any real responsibility for governing.
Go and have a look at what Trócaire does, these days, and you won’t find a catholic charity, but a cookie cutter left wing lobby group.
The thing about bullies is that they play a numbers game. In the school yard, the pattern is the same: one child, systematically isolated from the herd, is made to feel that a large group is against them. They are taunted, called names, ridiculed, and fear is deployed to make those who are not the […]
Just as Britain left an indelible mark in Ireland, so too did Ireland leave an indelible mark on Britain.