Americans, to their very great credit, are much less tolerant of things like super high prices for fuel than Europeans are.
Once you concede the principle that the wage should rise, the opposition will always outbid you, and you will always look niggardly by comparison.
Ultimately, no matter how hard Pride pushes to silence discourse on this topic, it can’t succeed: People know what a woman is.
Sensible schools will say “no thanks” to these books. It might be worth checking whether your local school is, in fact, a sensible one.
This one, really, is the classic Eamon Ryan gaffe.
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.