RTE is supposed to cover Irish News. Very often, it seems to see its role as covering up Irish News
And so, isn’t it fair to ask: What if the science at the start of the pandemic was actually right, and we’ve been getting it wrong ever since?
To the extent that there are differences, they are differences of tone, not of approach.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
In the last two years alone, the state will have spent twenty billion euros more than it took in, even with a record tax take.
Case numbers are soaring, hospital numbers are slowly rising, ICU numbers are flat, and the number of people being ventilated artificially to keep them alive is actually falling.
There is nobody rational, on the whole planet, who seriously believes that tennis player Novak Djokovic poses any kind of health threat to the people of Australia.
But that poses a problem for journalists, because unlike the scientists, the journalists are sure. They’re sure a disaster is coming, and they need you to act.
In these circumstances, the decision to let the virus rip, so to speak, is unambiguously the correct one.
One of the great temptations when you write about policy and politics for a living is to surrender to your prior prejudices when covering any story. It is fair to say that my prior prejudices about recent Irish policy are as follows: That harmonising our corporate taxation rates was a grievous error, likely to drive […]
A phenomenon which I encounter more and more often, these days, is the case of the secret Gript reader. The secret Gript reader comes to you via Whatsapp, or a twitter direct message, or sometimes, an encounter at a social event. They always say the same thing, more or less, and it goes something like […]
It has not been much remarked upon, in the early days of the new year, that there is one political certainty in 2022: The year begins with Micheál Martin as Taoiseach. It will end with somebody else in the job. Mr. Martin made a deal to take power, and at the centre of that deal […]