Wallace was substantially correct in what he claimed all those years ago
The whole point of the carbon tax in theory is that it shifts behaviour – that it is a “nudge” in the right direction. But in reality, it does not do that, because investing in the ability to use alternative fuels is beyond the average household.
Put figures like these together with the impact of shuttering various health screening services for months at a time, and there is a reasonable case to be made that lockdown may have cost – or at minimum, ruined – many more lives than it saved.
How #CallumRobinson silenced his critics.
We had merrily gone from the sublime to the ridiculous and had reached another covid-nuttery stalemate
“An apology and clarification from RTÉ is much needed for the Polish community”: Anna Sochańska, Polish Ambassador to Ireland
Norma Foley’s response to Darina Allen’s campaign shows the same lack of coherence we get from Eamon Ryan
It is still open to the original appellants to request a further review
In Ireland, we demand total conformity with whatever the pieties of the day might be, and then re-define those pieties as tolerance and compassion.
If the Government had any decency, it would resign in disgrace.
Sinn Féin, after explicitly telling voters at the last election that the party was “committed” to retaining the 12.5% corporate tax rate, has now done a u-turn so fast it’d make you motion sick, saying they suddenly support changing it. Honestly, the government and the so-called “opposition” parties in this country deserve each other. At […]
Senator Sharon Keoghan rightly called them out for what she described as their hypocrisy.