The obvious question is whether artists who travel to Texas to attend a festival are entitled to taxpayer funding for their flights and accommodation when they then decide not to bother playing at the event – the whole reason we were funding them to go in the first place?
It all goes back to an attitude problem: Listening to many Irish politicians, you get the permanent impression that they’re entirely sick of dealing with us
There is protest, there is symbolism, and then there is childish student union politics without thought to diplomacy. Not the for the first time, from Holly Cairns, this only fits one of those categories.
Patrick Kielty is by all accounts a very fine fellow and a nice man, but the ratings do not lie. The public, in this first year at the helm for him, just isn’t buying what he’s selling.
Even if she’s missing half her face (as one rumourmonger suggested), hiding that fact won’t change it.
The bottom line is that some of these TDs have spent just about enough time in bed with the NGO sector, and the progressives. The frenetic action is over now, and all they’re left with is the mess, and the shame, and the sense that they’ve betrayed the people they were actually married to.
This evidence was there in the polls: As we went into the final week, it was clear that the more people heard about the proposals, the less sure they were about them.
The truth is that it was the politicians who didn’t understand – why they were having these votes, what the point of them was, or why people had the concerns that they did.
The many crimes of Joanne Rowling.
We’re living with many of the consequences of a sexual revolution that has been unleashed without any restraint.
If you view the war not as a conflict between rational actors, but a conflict between a rational state and a death cult, then it all begins to make more sense
The average Irish household is not draped in LGBT iconography, and the automatic assumptions of progressivism are not immediately perceived as virtuous in the way that they are inside the bubble.