The Commission is the problem, not the person appointed to it.
Probably no world event has been more consequential for Europe and for Ireland over the last decade than the Syrian war. That conflict, fought between supporters of the despotic government of President-for-life Bashar Al-Assad on one side, and a motley group of Islamic extremists on the other side, has killed, according to most estimates, at […]
There might be no better system, but I’m not sure that this system, reliant as it is on the prejudices and biases of twelve ordinary citizens, can be called justice.
And the political class, as a whole, lacks any interest in holding the administrative state to account.
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