Irish children
There is protest, there is symbolism, and then there is childish student union politics without thought to diplomacy. Not the for the first time, from Holly Cairns, this only fits one of those categories.
Straight to rental
Patrick Kielty is by all accounts a very fine fellow and a nice man, but the ratings do not lie. The public, in this first year at the helm for him, just isn’t buying what he’s selling.
‘I campaigned for ‘yes’, but I voted ‘no’
What really happened
The bottom line is that some of these TDs have spent just about enough time in bed with the NGO sector, and the progressives. The frenetic action is over now, and all they’re left with is the mess, and the shame, and the sense that they’ve betrayed the people they were actually married to.
Almost every single one of them are dependent on the taxpayers – the same people who have just delivered a thumping NoNo vote.
What were the great referenda on Family and Care actually about I ask? Nonsense. Absolute and entire non-sense, as the man on the street in Balbriggan said.
Missing children
This evidence was there in the polls: As we went into the final week, it was clear that the more people heard about the proposals, the less sure they were about them.
Landslide NO vote