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.
At the moment, Irish voters are being told that the changes proposed to their foundational legal document are small and symbolic. That simply is not the case.
If a funeral mass is just a do-it-yourself liturgy that can be embellished with singing and dancing and celebrity spotting, then what significance does it have, by itself, at all?
Judges, of course, have a very defined and limited role: Their job is not to make the laws, but to apply the laws as written by the legislature.
By any measure, this is an extraordinary increase in the demand on the asylum system in a very short timeframe.
The Labour Party doesn’t have many electoral niches left. This might be one they’d be happy to volubly occupy.
We don’t treat our politicians like that here, for better, or for worse.
Gript Media will be following this story up in the days and weeks to come.
We reject DeValera’s Ireland, and all it’s works, and all of its empty promises.
The point is this: In a presidential campaign, almost anybody can win given the right set of circumstances, or the collapse of an opponent.
Is it easier, in the round, to imagine Ireland becoming more like China as a result of this treaty, or China becoming more like Ireland?