These have been long, dark, miserable years. Covid 19 bears much of the blame for that. As a society though, our own share of the blame is much, much, greater than we will ever admit to ourselves.
One of Sinn Féin’s biggest critiques of the Irish government is that parties like Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are not serious about military neutrality. In the run-up to the 2019 local election, Sinn Féin urged the public to “defend neutrality” by voting for them “because others can’t be trusted.” They added that “you can’t […]
There are a couple of obvious problems with this, beyond the argument above that none of it is really necessary.
Why?
Duplicity under fire
What can one say? It’s groundhog day all over again. As Ireland’s Covid cases have begun to increase, we are once again experiencing calls for a return of various Covid restrictions – just weeks after lifting them initially. Tell me if you’re starting to get deja vu. The HSE's Emergency Department Taskforce is requesting the […]
Later this year, he is scheduled to become Taoiseach again. If he does, that probably locks him in as Fine Gael leader until the next election.
€4.6 million to groups that are involved in supporting the victims of crime
When it comes to environmental disasters, who do you generally imagine is responsible? We generally tend to think of an evil rightwing industrial capitalist with a top hat and monocle. Some lad who looks like the Monopoly man, laughing maniacally and twirling his moustache as his money machine pumps toxic fumes into the upper atmosphere. […]
The real debate in Ireland then is not between “neutrality” on the one hand and “NATO” on the other: it is about what the word “neutrality” means
“The vast bulk of INAR’s “charitable income” from me and you is actually spent on paying themselves.
Amid the ongoing cost of living crisis, as fuel and energy prices soar, a Fianna Fáil Senator has hit out at the lack of a “non-binary” gender option on the census. And they wonder why they’re falling behind in the polls. The comments were made this week by Senator Fiona O’Loughlin during the order of […]