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?
Ultimately, a ceasefire requires a major concession from Israel – but what concession does it require from Hamas?
The Peter McVerry trust is illiquid, not insolvent. It should be forced to take its losses, sell some property, and learn its lessons.
On a whole range of issues, Irish people should come to realise that the more powerful the EU becomes, the less it will “speak for them”
They indulged the labelling of their own citizens as racist and extremist for saying the very things that they themselves now admit to be true.
As one of them said this week, sarcastically referencing Trump’s 2016 promise: “I’ll be honest with you, I really am starting to get tired of all the winning”.
In Australia, by the time they reached the fourth booster round, fewer than half of people were getting it.
Like McQuaid, The President has no formal power, but his pronouncements carry all the weight of an archbishop’s crozier of yore