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.
That’s two of the media’s top two topics – Gaza and RTE – barely registering with the electorate at all, while the voters care about things that have been shunted significantly down the news agenda.
The lack of any real reform to RTE in the months since the Tubridy payment scandal has been obvious, and once again blame for that should fall at the feet of the Chairwoman of the Board.
As of now, the “Yes” side is in a very strong position, and it’s incumbent on the “No” side to think carefully about how to reverse that in the time remaining.
Wild birds taking flight.
It’s very likely that over the coming few years, the unpopularity of the net zero agenda will be the next big issue to divide the Irish public from those who rule us.
Each time you tinker with the document, you risk unforeseen legal side effects