At least Paul Murphy, and Baby It, will be happy.
The irony here is that Good Friday was, once, a de facto public holiday
An interesting question, I think, is this: Why does mere discussion provoke such anger?
All of this demonstrates the peril in which news organisations increasingly find themselves.
The odd thing is, of course, that O’Connell’s argument that Rowling could just, well, shut up, doesn’t seem to apply in her mind to other women who also suffer abuse as a result of airing their views in public.
Once you become a pensioner, it is, in effect, no longer your problem
This may be the last opportunity the country ever has to get answers from the man who effectively ran the country for two of its most troubled years.
This is a political choice by the Irish Government to directly inflict economic hardship on a sector of its own economy, and all of the people who rely on that sector of the economy for their income.
Leo Varadkar was right about this one – it was political theatre, not real opposition.
If Republican voters were simply choosing on policy, then the choice would be relatively clear.
The original test act, just like this modern one, had a simple animating origin: Fear.
By eschewing debate and, indeed, democracy itself, Una is effectively arguing that the opinions of the little people should not matter.