Objectively, the Minister for Health’s computer being hacked should be a major national scandal that prompts an urgent, Government-wide review of IT security protocols and the involvement of the Gardai, the Defence forces, and the state’s intelligence services.
The broad narrative about Ireland, which is almost universally accepted, is that the more we talk and are open about sex, the safer everyone becomes.
The successful bidder, naturally, will be a “specialist” in Climate Change, and Climate Action.
In Britain, they just give exalted civil servants Knighthoods. It might be a better system, and a cheaper one, than this nonsense.
It is tradition in Irish politics that any euro that gets spent by the Government once will get spent by the opposition
The whole and entire rationale for the Special Criminal Court is, in effect, that the state considers itself unable to guarantee the safety of jurors.
The odd thing about this is that it is both true, and, in its own way, admirable
The Horse Racing industry also needs to come to terms with something: Just saying “it’s tradition” over and over won’t cut it.
The imbroglio around Bud Lite in the United States, stemming from their decision to have the brand endorsed by trans activist Dylan Mulvaney, has been fascinating to watch. Fascinating mainly because it involves something unusually rare in the culture wars: A large corporation genuinely on the run because of a backlash that started on the […]
Nor, truly, is this particularly about the interests of trans children. It is, I suspect, much more about the interests of trans teachers.
Sinn Fein are an alternative only if you struggled with maths in school, and didn’t much care for history either.
It is likely, absent their running into a Ukrainian bullet, that those who perpetrated the beheading of a Ukrainian soldier will pay no legal price for their actions.