It is neat, in a way, that in the same morning we got to see the two faces of our Government. Voters will have to decide which face is the real one.
We shouldn’t be rewarding criminals for hoodwinking us.
There’s an inherent belief in official Ireland that certain ideologies are not truly “Irish”. It’s wrong.
After all, if the independent electoral commission was actually independent, would politicians have been so eager to set it up?
What do you do when the evidence suggests your own message is actively turning off voters, and you’ve just got one week left, when they’re scheduled to hear more of your message than ever before?
Welcome to the dark side, Ellen.
Responding quickly with accurate information is a necessity, because sometimes the wrong information can be published even by those acting in good faith.
The UK Government should tell the Americans, just this once, to bugger off.
It is Government interference in the market, not the market itself, that has caused this problem.
They are not the ones in prison. They are not the ones who will have to pay his fines. They are not the ones who, even as they revel in his martyrdom, will have to share it.
Ukraine and Russia can both still achieve peace on honourable terms. It’s about time that the west firmly nudged them towards the negotiating table.
This is not an especially radical proposal – outside of the constitutional change necessary to enact it – but it would, I feel, make an enormous difference to the attitude to public money that is too often pervasive across Ireland’s public sector.