Ireland already has an elected consultative forum, the Oireachtas.
We would do well, when resisting those who want to silence others, to avoid becoming the very thing we profess to hate.
Overall, it is difficult to look at the medium term economic situation with anything but pessimism
This is, in short, not a road that a free society should go down. The Green Party, having killed the proposal, should have the thanks of a grateful nation.
If so, then several decades worth of state policy have failed in their entirety
AbbVie is one of the world’s largest manufacturer of so-called “puberty blocker” drugs
There will be “a year’s work”, he says, just to remove all of the old Ash trees on his land which are now dead as a result of the disease.
The massive eastward shift in manufacturing and production from Europe to China and India is in large part incentivised by EU carbon accounting policies.
If the Irish people are to have a Presidency whose role it is to speak up for them against their own Government, then where is that President when he is needed?
if deflating tires is a legitimate form of protest, as some appear to think, then it is a legitimate form of protest for everybody – not just environmental activists.
Nobody has captured the imagination – but, it seems, lots of voters are very clear who they are absolutely sick of.
A State Housing agency is a licence for suppliers to print money, and bureaucrats to waste it.