It’s very easy to say that this kind of thing is empty, bellicose rhetoric – but what if it’s not?
In fact, you won’t find a single independent estimate of Irish covid deaths which exceeds, or even matches the official Government figure.
It’s not a Justice System, really. We need Emer Higgins on the job.
It is an open question as to how many Irish people realise that expensive oil is actually the state policy of the Irish Government.
The problem, basically, is that while we may have agreed to forget lockdown, it has not agreed to forget us.
It is very, very hard to have confidence in public institutions to act fairly, and fearlessly, in the public interest when you read stories like this.
In the UK, the media reflects popular sentiment. Here, it reflects popular sentiment in South Dublin.
Perhaps the most frightening thing, if you are a Fianna Fáil partisan, is this: The party is on 15%, and it doesn’t seem to care.
Tolerated
Again.
Why bother making the service better, asked one twitter commenter, when you can just re-name it and lower expectations for it instead?
It is a tragedy, after all, that one night out, followed by a “hook up” that went wrong, has effectively ruined two lives.