This being a democracy, we get what we vote for. In this case, it appears that the public voted for a Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael scramble for Ministries and Mercs.
Would it bother me if my wife earned substantially more than I did? Yes. Yes it would.
How do you improve upon the most moral and good little country ever conceived of by mankind?
“You have to remember”, said the sage, “that these fuckers are all completely mad”.
He has influence not because of his platform, but because the things he is saying are resonant.
When men were men, and all that.
This is not, and never was, a protest of last resort.
“We are the media now” – and journalists absolutely HATE it.
What Trump’s first victory wrought, his second has undone.
The Irish Independent was leading with the news that the Taoiseach, Mr. Harris, had received an emergency briefing on the incoming weather. What exactly Mr. Harris is expected to do about the weather, nobody knows.
It’s in my nature, said the Scorpion, to the Frog
Darts, television, Finn McRedmond’s rejection of “woke”, and the Irish Government’s strange advertising strategy.