If you feel the system is rigged against you, why should you trust it?
Will Ireland’s ruling elites learn from Germany’s mistakes, or will sanctimony lead us into our own debacle?
Trump is a genius, though cursed with an autism that renders him apparently incapable of composing a syntactically-sound sentence immune to misinterpretation.
Brendan McFarlane killed Irish people. That’s how he spent his adult years.
Modern journalists are largely (with some honourable exceptions) defined by two characteristics. One is a studiously-cultivated, carefully-curated ironclad-stupidity.
“Choosing to be a discreetly parasitic fluke is one thing, but quite another for the fluke to perform a Michael Flatley-type liver-dance in public, effectively taunting the Americans over their stupidity.”
Grown-ups know not to light matches in the airing cupboard where the linen is tinder-dry or to go searching for a gas leak with a lit candle.
like hundreds of thousands of people, this weekend I remain disconnected and am sending this by carrier pigeon.
“….a power-mad inadequate who would sacrifice anything to feed his addiction.”
Lowry is now so popular there that he even has five county councillors, including his son, Micheál, on his side, so enabling voters to tell them apart: like fada, like son.
From being the least treed country in Europe, we are about to become the first country in the EU to be felling far more trees than we are planting
“Such has been the systematic infantilisation of Irish popular opinion that this dependency is not a subject for national shame.”