A year ago, there was an opportunity to offer the electorate something really different. Instead, the choice has been made to offer the electorate some empty rhetoric.
D Hotel to be used as IPAS centre
Ireland, which is incapable of manufacturing a car of any kind and would be hard put nowadays days to make a trap for a pony, has announced that it will ban the sales of petrol and diesel cars by 2030. This ambition ranks with New Guinea’s noble plan to outlaw bobsleighs.
Childhood holidays in Arklow
He will be sworn in at an official inauguration in June.
Millions being received for accommodation
The Israelis, I’m afraid, do not always make life easy for their friends.
After all, one might also argue that given that this mess happened on her watch, the Minister for Communications has a moral obligation to resign and repay her own salary. Right?
Much more allowed to stay
A politician with the balls (forgive me) to stand up and say what a lot of people are thinking – that RTE should be cut loose from public funding and left to its own devices – might quickly win the hearts and minds of a great many more voters than conventional wisdom suggests.
Barry Ward’s tweet
On Saint Valentine’s day Lorcán Mac Mathúna recalls a planned proposal – and braving a stylish jewel den in pursuit of a ring.