They’re still going to slice open your wallet. They’re just going to give you an injection, first, so you don’t feel it.
Politicians who are demanding a new category of offence on foot of these crimes are not legislating sensibly.
If the war on crime has gotten to this stage, it suggests that the Irish strategy to fight it simply isn’t working.
Are there, in fact, legions of millennials in Ireland just waiting to flock back through the doors of churches at unreasonably early hours on a Sunday morning to have their communion and listen to sermons, just as soon as Pope Francis announces that he will permit the blessing of same sex marriages?
The modern western ruling class has a very narrow range of lifestyles and opinions that it truly considers acceptable, even as it proclaims itself inclusive.
The problem here, he says, is that there was a lack of “transparency from the outset”.
There is no good reason why public servants should not be sackable on the grounds of incompetence, or under-performance.
China is living proof that the zero covid policy championed by many journalists over the past two years is a disaster.
The thing that is in our power – if we indeed believe that disaster is on the horizon – is to prepare for it
Everybody knows the policy is a disaster; Everybody is afraid to say it.
Why on earth is the Irish Government giving five million euro to media outlets for media outlets to give to Ukraine?
The truth about Paul Murphy is this: That if there were, ever, a fully socialist Ireland, he would denounce it as not socialist enough.