The Israelis, I’m afraid, do not always make life easy for their friends.
After all, one might also argue that given that this mess happened on her watch, the Minister for Communications has a moral obligation to resign and repay her own salary. Right?
A politician with the balls (forgive me) to stand up and say what a lot of people are thinking – that RTE should be cut loose from public funding and left to its own devices – might quickly win the hearts and minds of a great many more voters than conventional wisdom suggests.
Ultimately, none of this will impact the outcome of the conflict one way or another.
There’s a general and measurable shift in attitudes toward the sanctity of life.
Arguments about misinformation cannot be sustained when the Government itself is openly misinforming voters about the consequences of what they are asking the public to vote on.
They both have a big challenge in setting something up to begin with. And they’ve both made different sacrifices to go about it differently.
If we need more construction workers, then what would be wrong about offering Irish construction workers the exact same terms that we offered to Ukrainians who wished to come here for refuge?
To be fair to Trump, the predictable avalanche of media headlines is not fair to him, on this occasion.
For all the left talk about “privilege”, their attitudes on core issues are increasingly those of the privileged, not the deprived.
Monday’s immigration protest was certainly larger than many in the establishment expected
Which way Sinn Fein jumps will tell us a lot about the party, and it will also tell us a lot about what it’s hearing on the doorsteps.