“I hope your wife is raped. I hope your mother is raped. I hope your sister is raped and gets pregnant”.
Until you see all these people on stage, facing off against each other, the polls are a bit of a nonsense.
Threats to his family are unacceptable. But public anger at him and his colleagues is entirely justified.
There are those who will say that yesterday’s ruling that the school should in essence deal with its own problem is some kind of victory for Mr. Burke.
Both countries are governed by a class of people who are entirely befuddled by the idea that anyone would be proud of something as accidental and incidental as one’s country.
“Put pressure on the Irish Government”
What’s good for you doesn’t always make you richer.
There’s a simple rule about ideas: Unpopular ideas do not need to be suppressed.
The last prison built in this country was the Midlands Prison, which opened in 2000 when the population was 3.84 million.
When you or I see the tricolour flying in Artane or Coolock, we might think of Ireland. When they see it, they think of Donald Trump or Nigel Farage or Marine LePen.
“The Gaelic Sheikh” and “Simon Hamas” – what EU diplomats are now calling the Tánaiste.
But his victory would represent, I think, a further confirmation that the Irish public have a fundamental preference for the acceptable and tolerable over the challenging.