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.
In his own way, Dwyer has done the rest of us a service here.
If the Government wanted to do a basic income pilot scheme, it could have picked many sectors of society. Why not single parents?
Perhaps that is because Eamon Ryan is something that Irish people are not used to: A politician who keeps his promises.
Moderation will always, by necessity, be subjective.
On all three metrics on which you might judge energy policy, then – cost, supply, and emissions – Ireland went backwards.
All of these indicators point in the same direction: This war will not, now, end quickly.
There’s a bit of carts and horses about this one.