This whole event has become one of those things for the Irish Media where all are agreed that the Green Jersey is paramount and whatever sacrifices of dignity must be made are bearable.
The central question isn’t if foreigners should be allowed to buy houses, but why we have made it so attractive.
But in Ireland, we won’t even look at the figures, and to even have this conversation makes you a potential racist
A trade deficit is not actually a bad thing in all – or even most – circumstances. Countries with trade deficits are rich.
It is a mistake, I think, to imagine that a public conflagration with Mr. Trump would be meaningfully harmful to Micheál Martin.
Changing what has worked for as long as the Bond franchise has is the classic example of a change for the sake of change. Those rarely work out, in business, art, or politics.
Arguably the worst advice ever given by an Irish opposition to the Government.
The only circumstance in which they appear to believe that the law of “promoting an option makes people more likely to take it” does not apply is when it comes to ending your life.
Answer the second question accurately, and you’ll understand why the answer to the first is “they wouldn’t”.
A full national debate on what we might call “net zero” is long overdue
The only way to deter nuclear war is with the promise of retaliation.
But if George W. Bush was wrong to try and export democracy to Muslims, what on earth made Europe think it was a good idea to import millions of Muslims who don’t like democracy?