You’d nearly be glad the Dáil is on extended holiday, wouldn’t you?
Behind the scenes, a detailed and well-thought out plan is in place with the aim of making anti-immigration candidates a functional irrelevance
In a society where the state pays, your waistline suddenly becomes a matter of public policy.
It was suggested to me that in many cases prison management are relaxed about drugs entering prisons on the basis that were the supplies to stop or cease, managing the prisons would actually become much harder
Whatever your views on these things, it strikes me that this is a choice that the country benefits from having available to parents
Journalists, having been deprived of their ability and power to censor and curate the public conversation, would dearly love that power back.
That this is a nonsensical law should be evident to anybody who has ever travelled inbound through Dublin Airport.
We are spending an additional €30billion annually – can a politician point to €30billion’s worth of betterment in Irish society? Is the Health Service better? Are the Gardai more efficient? Why do we still have a crippling teacher shortage?
There is no reason, other than the weather, why Ireland couldn’t do this. The problem is that if you long-finger it, as Byrne would, it will never happen because it’s too daunting.
This has long been central to Simon Harris’s style of politics.
On the one hand, I’ll miss the Olympics – sports like wall climbing are great, for a few days. On the other hand, you’d probably get sick of them if they went on any longer.
Free speech has to extend to extend even to the dumbest slogans, otherwise it is not free at all.