It’s a strange country, where people hold Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to a higher standard of competence than they hold people who receive millions of euros in taxpayer funding.
What happened in Clare yesterday was a mistake.
How do I know, for example, that a promise from Eoin O’Broin is impossible to keep? The simple answer is “maths”.
Ireland, as a neutral country, would presumably abhor the idea of enforcing international laws by force.
The law passed by the Oireachtas is now being interpreted by An Bord Pleanála to mean something that it’s highly unlikely the Oireachtas intended to be the effect of its legislation.
After all, if Tubridy was expendable, why wouldn’t they be?
The EU would be taking on immense obligations, for no clear benefit in return.
If she was smart, she’d have quietly dropped it.
We are now at the point where not only are criminals being released for lack of room, but where many aren’t going to prison in the first place.
The whole affair is a bad advertisement for making friends in Fine Gael.
Were it simply the position that Gardai had the discretionary power to grant immunity from deportation, that would be one thing.
A smart Russian would look at Ireland and see a country relatively friendly to the west, on good terms with the Americans, and with absolutely negligible counter-intelligence capabilities, and ask a simple question: Why change what works for us?