The provisional conclusion which may be drawn from all of this is that the re-opening was the correct decision,
Support for EU membership here spans all political parties and shades of opinion.
In any arrangement where a man is buying sex from a woman who would not otherwise have sex with him, the man is de facto the one with power.
Let’s be completely honest here: Almost every last one of us, if offered €295k a year, would take it, and not think twice
A free country should always retain the right to say that those who come here and systematically break our laws and harm our people are not welcome
Overall, the figures paint a picture of an increasingly mild, decreasingly lethal illness on a par with the flu itself, if not less lethal, in fact.
In fact, by the standards of western, English-speaking democracies, the Irish Government is in a very strong political position, relative to the main opposition.
The traditional case for Irish neutrality is very strong, but it is also based on an anachronism:
Once again, Ireland’s entire NGO and media establishment have shown themselves only too content to look the other way.
For two years, in this country, we let ourselves be blinded to bullshit by people’s titles and qualifications.
The sad thing, of course, is that this story will never, truly, be debunked.
It paints a picture, whether intentional or not, of a closed shop political class whose cultural and economic similarities overcome any superficial policy differences.