There’s a certain cultural snobbery at play towards chaps from Newcastle with St. Georges Flag tattoos on their bellies who like to get drunk on beer and sing rude songs about the Germans.
We know, because we live in a world where 80% of American men are circumcised, that the procedure does no lasting harm to the human body’s ability to function.
Our immigration policy means that there are actually now 4,700 fewer Irish people in Ireland paying taxes and contributing to the economy.
Tweaking the levy and how it is applied to force the banks to become more competitive is something the Government should look at, but don’t hold your breath.
All most of these people want is reasonable limits on immigration, and more homes for their own kids. And there isn’t a candidate in the land with a shot at taking power who is willing to offer that formulation.
One of the problems Ireland and Irish leaders have is that if our problems could be solved by a few speeches at Beal na Bláth and some flowery rhetoric about our glorious republican dead, then this would be the wealthiest nation on earth.
There’s a fine line between “brave and principled” and just flat out weird.
Ironically, in this case, phones in schools is actually a pretty good example of why Government shouldn’t interfere with the small stuff:
It is likely to get more personal precisely because so little separates the two parties on the issues
Man can not live on yes we can, or so much winning, alone.
Someone with the talent to effectively run an organisation that large can command that kind of salary in the private sector – so why are we paying our Ministers for Health the salary of a modestly successful country solicitor?
One of the problems with climate change policy as practiced, rather than as conceived, is that it amounts to a deliberate government attempt to distort the economy and the free market.