There’s a simple rule about ideas: Unpopular ideas do not need to be suppressed.
The last prison built in this country was the Midlands Prison, which opened in 2000 when the population was 3.84 million.
When you or I see the tricolour flying in Artane or Coolock, we might think of Ireland. When they see it, they think of Donald Trump or Nigel Farage or Marine LePen.
“The Gaelic Sheikh” and “Simon Hamas” – what EU diplomats are now calling the Tánaiste.
But his victory would represent, I think, a further confirmation that the Irish public have a fundamental preference for the acceptable and tolerable over the challenging.
The party of middle class liberal nostalgia for fights long won and radical status long lost.
At 250 points, is college really for you?
One of the things that strikes me about this is the way, when migration to the west is discussed, sex is barely ever mentioned.
We’re all commies now, Ted.
Yes, it does matter. And if you write it off as frivolous news, you are missing a big point.
We’re back, baby.
If hotel prices in Dublin are extortionate, that is simply because a lot of people want to go to Dublin on the date in question.