But there’s a difference between hoping for an event occurring, which is reasonable, and openly being seen to cheer for that event occurring, which can be foolish.
They’ve come home in glorious failure, and not one single Palestinian has been helped by their antics.
There will come a day when Governments do not have fourteen billion euros to play with. And when that day comes, we will realise just how badly we have spent our cash
The poster boy for “centrist dad” politics finds himself embroiled in an inevitable crisis.
Catherine Connolly might loathe the comparison, but she is benefitting from the same dynamic as Donald Trump
The minute a hard choice had to be made, who was the first to get the chop? Not the bureaucracy. Not the NGOs. Not the massive overspending on projects.
They richly deserve this, do Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.
If she is serious about wishing to be our President, then it behooves her to set out exactly what makes her different and more qualified than the other two candidates.
The state has largely, over the past few decades, shyed away from the institutionalisation of the mentally unwell.
What we’re learning here is McDowell’s value system, and there is much to learn indeed.
Here is a thing that most Irish people do not understand: Higher energy prices have been the long-term policy of the Irish state for about twenty years.
We flatter ourselves in this country – it is almost a national pastime. But on Gaza, the plot has been lost entirely and altogether.