A box-ticking exercise.
Grand Canal
Damaged social cohesion
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The irony here is that almost anything you do to make her position more democratically accountable would also strengthen her power to set the agenda in Europe.
Staying on the right side of the line between steadfast civil disobedience and outright thuggery is a duty that all those who take on the responsibility of leading these protests will have to take on.
The Government seems to have decided the time for talk is over.
Peter McGarry
Unrest
According to newly-elected Green Party leader Roderic O’Gorman, Ireland’s hate speech bill should be passed within a matter of months.
The single biggest reason, of course, for the electoral success of the Nazi party was the failure of other political groupings to address the problems of the German people.
In 2022, a memo warned the Irish government that a large asylum seeker influx may damage “social cohesion”, particularly among “deprived communities”.