There’s an obvious difference between the procurement of Pepper Spray, which is an obvious case of fighting the last war, and plans to equip public order Gardai with Tasers, which is a relatively obvious case of serious over-reaction.
RTE is still spending vast amounts of taxpayer cash, for very dubious returns.
Like the Brits in 1916, there will be no shortage of voices demanding repression. Like the Brits in 1916, repression may be a choice they come to regret.
What harm, you might ask, comes from Burke standing outside a school for the rest of his natural life? The answer is the precedent that it sets.
And adopting a country, just like a puppy, only to abandon it when you get bored, is a great moral wrong.
We must be purer than pure, when surrounded by such moral degeneracy. John Charles McQuaid and Eamon Ryan have this much in common: They both desired, or desire, Ireland to be a beacon of virtue to a fallen globe.
For the moment, Ireland’s political funding laws accomplish almost nothing useful for members of the public actually interested in how their representatives fund campaigns
But perhaps your correspondent is simply getting cynical in his advancing years. Time will tell.
One thing is for sure: This is not a simple issue, and anyone who tells you they have an easy fix is pulling the wool over your eyes.
We’ll be back at it again, next year, in Azerbaijan. Just as we were here last year.
We will find out soon enough how well he has thought his policies through. And we should learn from both his successes, and his errors.
Political choices, in the case of the Donegal case, that left a man free who should not have been at liberty in this country, or any other.