“What are the Labour Party for?”, asked a colleague who shall remain nameless, yesterday, as we were deciding who would write about this weekend’s party conference. “After all, what’s unique about them is not popular, and what is popular about them is not unique”. It’s hard to argue with that. The Labour Party is in […]
The private members Bill on period poverty sponsored by SDLP MLA Pat Catney passed at second stage in the Stormont Assembly on Tuesday. As we pointed out in an earlier piece, the legislation itself is pretty uncontentious within the parameters of welfarist policy and has given rise to no opposition with regards to its actual […]
The unborn child
“desperate to try and restore its ‘socialist’ credentials”
Ms O’Reilly accepts that “punishment and accountability are important
The unspoken part of “protect the vulnerable” is, and ever has been, that there is a big chunk of society which is not vulnerable.
The leader of the Rural Group, Mattie McGrath TD has long campaigned on the need for extensive renovation grants to be made available to restore properties
Vetting stopped in 2012
Here are the cold facts: Government policy forced Eddie Rockets to close. Government policy forced it to lay off staff. Even when Government policy allowed it to re-open, Government messaging continued to scare customers away.
Over the past decade, Ireland has embraced just about every left wing, anti-landlord, pro tenant, measure it could think of
UK poll: young people ‘spending above their means’
No rights for child?