There is no medical treatment or process on this planet which enables a person born male to acquire ovaries, or eggs, or a second X chromosome.
If you wanted to write an advertisement, or a recruitment campaign, for the so-called “far right”, then you couldn’t do much better than this.
The shocking thing here is not that this happened at all: It is that the thing having happened, there is next to no anger about it from mainstream journalists.
Energy policy is perhaps the single biggest strategic question facing western countries in the longer term. Ireland’s persistent refusal to consider the cleanest, most efficient, alternative to fossil fuels is completely baffling.
The war in Ukraine shows no signs of being over soon
It’s the kind of thing that, if it were being proposed for, say, Boris Johnson, would have the Irish media in apoplectic form.
Even so, this all just has the air of unreality about it.
Alas, an event like this is bound to be a let-down: After all, it couldn’t possibly be as insufferable as it sounds.
Peat is, of course, much cheaper than gas.
Nor, for the record, has Government even made such a proposal.
In the case of the homeless, let’s also be honest: Politicians simply do not have sustained pressure from the public to solve the problem.
That’s not western propaganda – it’s just what is obvious to anybody with a brain.