The west is polarised and divided internally, because there is no longer any agreed set of universal values.
The truth of the matter is that this is the kind of entitled attitude that got Hogan into trouble in the first place.
This report by SIMI is a fascinating document, if you’re interested in policy, and it systematically takes the Government’s declared policy apart, in an authoritative, and convincing way.
The idea that the west has some moral duty to abandon millions of people to Russian overlordship and bullying just to keep the Russians happy is absurdist.
on the substance, Willie O’Dea is right: Fianna Fáil has become, in Government, functionally indistinguishable from Fine Gael.
The raw truth of the matter is that a great many progressives now simply do not believe that basic democratic rights should apply to their opponents.
What we can say, though, is that the fear many people have about ditching facemasks is evidence that there have been social consequences.
Whether a horrific crime is relevant today, or just a form of outrage archaeology is, in Sinn Fein’s telling, a simple matter of first asking which side carried it out.
At some point, perhaps soon, perhaps later, Ireland’s younger voters will realise that this is a country with increasingly nothing to offer them except for rainbows, and symbolism
One suspects, in this case, that Mr. O’Callaghan is not going to prison because of what he did, but because of how foolish he has revealed the state to be.
Labour essentially wants state policy crafted around the false and offensive idea that boys are inherently dangerous, and require taming at the hands of girls.
There cannot seriously be an intelligent person left, for example, who seriously believes that a tide of covid infections in Ireland is being held back by indoor mask wearing.