It is completely remarkable that the people who, just a week ago, thought Irish Soccer Player Callum Robinson should not play again for Ireland until he was vaccinated against Covid-19 have gone so quiet in the wake of his five-goal week for the national team. After all, the argument that Robinson should not be playing […]
There is no group, for example, pointing out to Government and the media that the Carbon tax hits the poor disproportionately.
“Never has so much been spent to achieve so little”, said Pearse Doherty, responding to it. It is very hard to argue that he is wrong.
when it comes to the carbon tax, progressives in Ireland do not care so much about the impact on the poor
At this point, it would be unsurprising to see claims that Brigid was also an avid believer in Trans Rights and Assisted Suicide.
The whole point of the carbon tax in theory is that it shifts behaviour – that it is a “nudge” in the right direction. But in reality, it does not do that, because investing in the ability to use alternative fuels is beyond the average household.
Put figures like these together with the impact of shuttering various health screening services for months at a time, and there is a reasonable case to be made that lockdown may have cost – or at minimum, ruined – many more lives than it saved.
the message is not a cruel or a harsh one: It might be said to be a Catholic message, in fact, and a mild rebuke, whether intended or not, to Martin Luther. Salvation does not come, on Crockett Island, through faith alone. Faith alone is not enough.
In Ireland, we demand total conformity with whatever the pieties of the day might be, and then re-define those pieties as tolerance and compassion.
If the Government had any decency, it would resign in disgrace.
Trying to raid the super-rich for tax is a fool’s errand
In 2008, when the last great disaster befell us, there was a moment of post-fall clarity. “Yes”, the media said, “too many dissenters were shouted down. There was a Groupthink problem. It should never happen again”.