When newspapers abolish the use of “pregnant woman” and endorse “pregnant people”, they are essentially saying that they accept that the most hardcore trans rights activists are correct, and their opponents are incorrect. It is not reporting, it is activism.
They rob you twice, arguably three times, and most of us do not even notice.
The people of Donegal deserve their full redress, and the rest of us need to start asking, more loudly, where the consequences are for those who failed Donegal, and failed the country in the process.
On Thursday April 15th this year, Dr. Darina Flanagan of NPHET gave evidence to the High Court, in a case which challenged the legitimacy of Mandatory Hotel Quarantine. Her evidence was reported by the Irish Times under the headline: “Constitutional rights of women in mandatory quarantine breached, court told”
The good news is that Biden has a full 12 months to steady the ship and turn things around for both himself, and his party. But this morning, he looks as politically weak as any American President has for a long time.
It should be a relatively straightforward principle that lawyers can not simultaneously represent both parties in a case. In this instance, the Attorney General’s day job is to represent the State. And his nixer is to represent Independent News and Media against the state
Amidst a crime crisis, an electricity crisis, the likely loss of our keystone corporation tax rate, the aftermath of the longest lockdown in the western world, record waiting lists, record homelessness, and record house prices, it really comforts the soul to know that Ireland’s political leaders are focused on the issues that matter to each and every one of us:
Rewarding one group in this fashion was always going to be seen as providing an insult to other groups. Add to that that many private sector workers and business owners suffered greatly during the pandemic, suffering financial losses for “the cause”, and what you have is not a recipe for votes, but yet another political mess for the Government, entirely of its own making.
Saying “I told you so” is a rather unpleasant trait in a person, but there are times when it cannot be avoided. Last week, on these pages, I wrote that: the Government can live with electricity blackouts if they only affect the hapless citizenry. Such blackouts can be blamed on other factors: Maintenance. The need […]
There’s also this to consider: If the 12.5% rate is not, as he claims, of vital importance to attracting multinational investment to Ireland, why haven’t we raised it to 15% ourselves, voluntarily, years ago?
This is the cost of lockdown that has gotten hardly any attention in Ireland.
Honestly, why has nobody thought of a solution to high rents that was this simple before?