After we published our story last week, other members of the Union reached out to Gript Media to confirm our reporting.
Such an environment makes the duty of the press to verify its facts even more solemn.
The whole thing is rotten, from the ground up.
it turns out that “I will not relent” actually means, in Mr. Cosgrave’s case, “I will relent as soon as my financial interests are at stake”.
The Department of Education has more employees, and a bigger budget, than Tesco Ireland. Norma Foley is undoubtedly a decent woman with good intentions. But nobody would ever have hired her to run Tesco.
A cynic might suggest Cosgrave’s opinions can be swayed and changed based on his bottom line. But given his long record of suggesting that Irish politicians have been bought and sold by special interests, surely that would not be the case here.
One thing to take into account here is that these figures are based on Ireland having an average winter, like last year’s, with only a few relatively short periods of severe cold.
Annoyance or irritation with Rugby culture should not stop us from marvelling at the successes of the team
If Von Der Leyen is exceeding her constitutional remit – and she is – then that should not be a surprise. It is the natural consequence of creating her position in the first place
It might well suit the politicians to let RTÉ go insolvent.
Peace is, of course, desirable. But realism is also desirable. And there is precious little of it about, in western academia and politics, where this subject is concerned.
Until we begin to reckon with the civilisational problems we are creating for ourselves in the west, and the utter failure of multiculturalism, western society will remain on a glide path to disaster.