Frankly, it is not hard to imagine what the reaction would be if the roles were reversed here
If there is a chance to bash the west or Israel, then her concern for the starving children of the world can be set aside, happily enough.
The problem with this idea is that unless you fix the underlying problem, a price fixing law will ultimately destroy businesses and lead to shortages
Do the families offering this accommodation know what they are signing up for, and for how long?
What matters is not how much gas you extract, but how much gas you burn.
The fact is that once again, the Irish Government has made a fairly big and emotional commitment to people without considering, even for a moment, the practicality of their plan.
With the digitalisation and globalisation of the world, we now have countless companies who have truly global power. Power which, we have just discovered, they are willing and able to deploy for explicitly political goals.
If this happened to an Irish embassy in, say, Tel Aviv, how would Ireland react? With outrage, one might suspect.
President Zelensky, the toast of the western world, is not a perfect Democrat. But we cannot be blinded by contrarianism.
It is hard to see any case, at this stage, other than that this whole thing has been a monumental strategic disaster for the Russians, from start to finish
At its best, sport is magic, and the late Shane Warne was the king of the magicians.
The truth is that from a purely nationalist perspective, the calculations do not change much whether an aggressor considers us neutral or not