You know that really annoying thing social media sites do, where they keep updating their interface and fiddling with things that worked perfectly well before, and won’t just leave well enough alone for five minutes? Well, the Irish government apparently works off the same principle. Except instead of a website, it’s the Irish constitution, and […]
The thing that is in our power – if we indeed believe that disaster is on the horizon – is to prepare for it
Everybody knows the policy is a disaster; Everybody is afraid to say it.
Why on earth is the Irish Government giving five million euro to media outlets for media outlets to give to Ukraine?
The truth about Paul Murphy is this: That if there were, ever, a fully socialist Ireland, he would denounce it as not socialist enough.
In his own way, Dwyer has done the rest of us a service here.
If the Government wanted to do a basic income pilot scheme, it could have picked many sectors of society. Why not single parents?
Taxation to make life a little more difficult: it feels like the divine right of kings revisited.
Pourquoi?
Perhaps that is because Eamon Ryan is something that Irish people are not used to: A politician who keeps his promises.
On all three metrics on which you might judge energy policy, then – cost, supply, and emissions – Ireland went backwards.
Births are rising during the tormented country’s fragile peace