Whatever your views on these things, it strikes me that this is a choice that the country benefits from having available to parents
Journalists, having been deprived of their ability and power to censor and curate the public conversation, would dearly love that power back.
That this is a nonsensical law should be evident to anybody who has ever travelled inbound through Dublin Airport.
We are spending an additional €30billion annually – can a politician point to €30billion’s worth of betterment in Irish society? Is the Health Service better? Are the Gardai more efficient? Why do we still have a crippling teacher shortage?
There is no reason, other than the weather, why Ireland couldn’t do this. The problem is that if you long-finger it, as Byrne would, it will never happen because it’s too daunting.
This has long been central to Simon Harris’s style of politics.
On the one hand, I’ll miss the Olympics – sports like wall climbing are great, for a few days. On the other hand, you’d probably get sick of them if they went on any longer.
Free speech has to extend to extend even to the dumbest slogans, otherwise it is not free at all.
When politicians do something, they’ve usually talked themselves into it using some kind of rationale.
Women across the country who feel unsafe or threatened by this situation transparently do not have the same access to the airwaves or the newsprint as Simon Harris does.
Progressives will have to win the argument – which is something they are not doing, at present.
Of the three non-English “home nations”, Wales stands out for being the one with almost no mainstream tradition of nationalism.