What, exactly, is the point of the television licence, if RTE is not going to behave any differently from the commercial stations that don’t receive a penny in public funding?
This time next week, it’ll be polling day, and the whole great circus will come to an end. At least for a few months. Thank God.
No vote called
election
The GAA has now set a precedent that it can, and will, be pushed around into making political statements. That was a mistake. And not one, even, that will do a single thing for a soul in the Gaza strip.
Modern warfare is not about land, but about infrastructure. Ireland houses infrastructure that is vital to both our own interests, and, whether we like it, those of Europe and NATO.
Passed through Assembly
Of the three EU constituencies, Dublin is the one with the fewest certainty. And the candidate who the polls say is the most certain has, I think, more to worry about than many of his competitors.
The Irish establishment, on climate as well as immigration, has continuously written cheques that the voters, when it comes to it, simply will not want to cash.
Inward investment
Election 2024
This essentially means that one unlucky candidate will emerge without success.