Come back, freshen up the team, focus on the real problems, and admit where you got it wrong.
RTÉ does not deserve a life buoy, in its present crisis. It deserves a lustily thrown anchor.
The anomaly gets coverage, the normal gets tumbleweed.
“Nobody cares about that referendum”, my interlocutor tells me.
She is probably the least effective holder of that office in Irish history.
Billions are being spent in the hope of providing future care while in the current world, the waiting list for kids with Scoliosis is a scandalous five years.
One of the problems with “institutional capture”, which has been the go-to strategy for progressives for fifty years, is that it only works so long as the captured institutions remain legitimate and popular.
Allowing one tiny segment of the agri-food economy to tarnish the rest of it with this kind of mindless cruelty to animals is a strategic error, as well as a moral wrong.
As a performance it was at times compelling. But almost none of it was credible.
Ulstermen – or at least those of them who are persuadable – mostly understand why the Republic would not commemorate the battle of the Boyne
Far be it from me to second-guess Colette Browne, the communications director for the Social Democrats, but in her position I am not sure that I would have agreed, during a cost of living crisis, to have my party leader photographed for the Sunday Independent wearing made-to-order clothes with a labelled value of over €1000. […]
The problem is that in the case of the Ukraine war, both sides have reason to think the other might simply collapse.