We can also say with certainty that those lockdown years had immense costs that have never been truthfully acknowledged by those who promoted the lockdowns
After all, first it’s porn. Then it will be you’re forced to hand over your details to read certain news sites or access certain social media platforms.
The Government, in building new accommodation centres for migrants, is setting a precedent that essentially admits that building such centres is an obligation of the state without any defined limit
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.