Because trust has been lost, simple promises to “fix” the immigration system will not work.
If Trump had died yesterday, at the hands of someone inspired by a fear of his alleged fascism, then there are a great many in the media and politics who would have some of his blood on their hands.
John Waters is facing an eye-watering legal bill after his case with Kitty Holland
Asked to choose between alienating Irish Times reporters and Labour Party TDs on one hand, and their own voters and activists on the other, Independent Ireland chose to ditch its own national chairwoman.
RTE, for whatever reason, appears to believe that one of its core duties as a national broadcaster is to advance “the message” on climate change at every available opportunity
On this issue, our culture is simply superior.
Base politics.
Dying for the glory of the motherland is deeply engrained in the Russian cultural DNA.
The only way, ultimately, to reduce support for the “far right” is to show their voters that there is a better option. But the political establishment across Europe has absolutely no intention of doing so.
The whole point of forming the party was to build an organisation that could add more TDs and Senators in order to work towards entering Government. To do that, the party had to acquire a committed activist base. That is where Elaine Mullally came in.
“What can you do?” he responded. “In war, you still need to live your life”.
All of this, needless to say, will be a gravy train for a range of campaigning groups who will be able to bill the state for this work.