Politics 101: If you want people to abandon one idea, you need to give them a better set of ideas.
The state, however, can hardly turn around and bleat about misinformation and rumour when its own communication strategy in relation to migrant accommodation is practically designed to encourage misinformation and rumour
In a referendum campaign, the side that tells the better story usually wins.
The significance of 2023 is that it is the year when “far right” stopped being a label people feared, and began to become a standing joke.
Handing out “end of year awards” to politicians is a venerable and stupid Irish media tradition
If there’s nothing on telly this Christmas.
If you didn’t know who she was, you might think you’d woken up from a coma, and were listening to John Bruton or Bertie Ahern, circa 1997.
There’s an obvious difference between the procurement of Pepper Spray, which is an obvious case of fighting the last war, and plans to equip public order Gardai with Tasers, which is a relatively obvious case of serious over-reaction.
RTE is still spending vast amounts of taxpayer cash, for very dubious returns.
Like the Brits in 1916, there will be no shortage of voices demanding repression. Like the Brits in 1916, repression may be a choice they come to regret.
What harm, you might ask, comes from Burke standing outside a school for the rest of his natural life? The answer is the precedent that it sets.
And adopting a country, just like a puppy, only to abandon it when you get bored, is a great moral wrong.