The Irish public have a right to be livid. Fucking livid.
You expect them to learn WHAT lesson?
You do one useful thing, and you get attacked for it. Who’d be a politician?
There is no law saying to anybody that you must vote on a candidate on his or her merits instead of voting on them because your party has taken a position.
Tell us who you are. Tell us why you believe the things you believe. For God’s sake, tell us the truth
Ambitions for global relevance for our armed forces are not matched even in the slightest little bit by the necessary investment in our armed forces.
Every vote he gets will get him no closer to the Presidency, but gets Fianna Fáil closer to 12.5% and a big cheque.
The result here is peace, on Israel’s terms and on Donald Trump’s. His Irish critics would do well to reflect.
Radio presenters learned there and then that “playing it safe” was the way to keep their jobs, while creating controversy was a way to lose your job.
Perhaps the best way to consider this election is to ask the question: Who are Peter Casey’s 2018 supporters backing now?
If he was my columnist, working for this outlet, he would no longer be writing for us after that performance.
The moment we start convicting people of serious crimes in the court of public opinion without any proof beyond the word of an accuser, we are no better than the people of Salem Massachusetts