As a general rule, a healthy democracy is one in which disagreements are openly acknowledged and understood and debated reasonably.
If you know that somebody is being abused in their home, you have, assuredly, a moral responsibility to notify the authorities.
At present, safety in Dublin appears to be the sole responsibility of a woman from Meath against whom no Dubliner can vote.
Progressives would want to hope he’s almost alone in feeling that way, or they could be in for a rough few decades themselves.
The public wants somebody to pay for this mess, and that person must be someone they can identify with.
If there’s been a more significant political shift in my lifetime than the left’s attitude to big corporations, I don’t know what it is.
Pandering to your audience might be good for you, as a media outlet. But it’s almost always in the worst interests of the audience itself.
Unfortunately, the absence of a trial is also a boon to those “unnamed Garda sources”, who get, as ever, to spin a yarn that does not, entirely, add up.
One shudders to think of the national conversation that would presently be ongoing if the attacked migrants had been handing out leaflets in favour of more immigration, rather than in favour of more prayer.
Those people who roll their eyes and see an establishment that enforces rules and regulations selectively against its enemies are not imagining things.
No political party, after all, has ever won votes by criticising the popular people in the country.
The surest way to eliminate violence, over time, is to make violence a futile endeavor.