All the evidence you’ll ever need that we are governed not only by buffoons, but by dishonest and unprincipled buffoons.
Giving the power to shape the country’s future to people who do not have to live in that future would not only be grossly unfair, but a potentially catastrophic error.
Social housing in most areas is paid for at least in part by taxes paid by local people, often over generations.
In highlighting the alleged diversity of organised crime, RTE isn’t telling you anything new about organised crime. It’s telling you what it thinks of you, the Irish people.
To a lot of people watching around the world, it came across as deeply weird, angry, and obsessive.
I’m increasingly nervous about a prediction I made at the start of the year.
Elections are not decided, and never have been, by informed voters. To live in a democracy is to live in a tyranny of the casual, uninformed voter.
Putting up with some clutter on the lampposts is a very small price to pay for living in a country where we get to be consulted about how we should be ruled.
The primary theological difference between worship of the Christian God and worship of the underworld is that only one of those requires that you take responsibility for your actions
Middle class acceptability is a prerequisite for political success, and for the moment, for many of those seeking election on a patriotic platform, that ingredient is almost entirely lacking.
Fewer councillors means fewer Senators.
One of the basic jobs of elected officials is to see things coming. There are some candidates running in these elections who did see this problem coming, and warned about it.