In a democratic society, the right to speak your mind is of paramount importance
The best argument for Byrne’s pay is that her skills are demonstrably rare, not that they are essential.
to the vast majority of people the idea that the Americans and the British are the global baddies simply does not wash.
Make the licence fee optional – then those who trust RTE can pay for it.
“The first person they prosecute will end up a martyr”.
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.