It is not the next election that the Irish establishment should fear. It is the one after that.
Gaza might be dominating politics, as Pat Leahy wrote on Friday. But immigration is dominating the minds of voters.
At some point in the future, a Government is going to have to decide whether RTE has a future in its current form at all
Pay very close attention to what is said here, and what is not said:
None of this will make the slightest bit of difference to events in Gaza. Nor, for that matter, to the majority of voters in the country.
They knew, and yet he remained. And remains.
The lyrics about Britons never being slaves refer to the Viking practice of seizing christians into slavery.
This is an argument that might wash in the opinion pages of the Irish Times. I am unconvinced that it will persuade many of the locals in Roscrea, or elsewhere.
The Chief Justice separately offered two quotes that may be advantageous to one side or the other.
The public, and their changing choices, are much more to blame than the politicians are.
Which makes me ask: Where’s the imagination?
It is, perhaps, the stupidest three paragraphs of text ever suggested to an Irish Government.