What, exactly, is the point of the television licence, if RTE is not going to behave any differently from the commercial stations that don’t receive a penny in public funding?
This time next week, it’ll be polling day, and the whole great circus will come to an end. At least for a few months. Thank God.
The GAA has now set a precedent that it can, and will, be pushed around into making political statements. That was a mistake. And not one, even, that will do a single thing for a soul in the Gaza strip.
Modern warfare is not about land, but about infrastructure. Ireland houses infrastructure that is vital to both our own interests, and, whether we like it, those of Europe and NATO.
Of the three EU constituencies, Dublin is the one with the fewest certainty. And the candidate who the polls say is the most certain has, I think, more to worry about than many of his competitors.
The Irish establishment, on climate as well as immigration, has continuously written cheques that the voters, when it comes to it, simply will not want to cash.
Casey is correct in his assertion that a person can object to a development without ever really being impacted by it, or even visiting the locale in which the development is due to be built.
I am hesitant, here, to accuse the Journal of consciously serving a nefarious agenda – but I am entirely comfortable in noting that a nefarious agenda exists which is served, even unconsciously, by this nonsense.
Things can change in two weeks, but it’s increasingly hard to see what might be called “an earthquake” type result emerging from these elections.
Consciously running as the consummate political talking points machine, sounding much more angry about the public and companies like X than she is at the political system she’s supposed to be changing.
Also in demand: Tall blue eyed finance bros, and much better advice from the Irish Times agony aunt.
If Sinn Fein really wants to start winning back votes, it should be advocating that the next ten thousand migrants are welcome – so long as they are accommodated in places like Sachs Hotel. And Dalkey. And Foxrock. And Ballsbridge.