The whole thing is rotten, from the ground up.
it turns out that “I will not relent” actually means, in Mr. Cosgrave’s case, “I will relent as soon as my financial interests are at stake”.
The Department of Education has more employees, and a bigger budget, than Tesco Ireland. Norma Foley is undoubtedly a decent woman with good intentions. But nobody would ever have hired her to run Tesco.
Chris Rowan
A cynic might suggest Cosgrave’s opinions can be swayed and changed based on his bottom line. But given his long record of suggesting that Irish politicians have been bought and sold by special interests, surely that would not be the case here.
One thing to take into account here is that these figures are based on Ireland having an average winter, like last year’s, with only a few relatively short periods of severe cold.
Fewer people are learning to drive because fewer people have anywhere to go.
Visits home?
Priorities?
If Von Der Leyen is exceeding her constitutional remit – and she is – then that should not be a surprise. It is the natural consequence of creating her position in the first place
Big shift
Big State Ireland is now viewed as a mainstream political view rather than the extremist ideology that it really is.