€2.1 billion total
State-funded lobbying?
Why?
Hardline nationalists who’ve spent a lifetime wanting the Brits out now find that they must simultaneously argue that the Crown is an honourable and generous institution that will aid their cause.
€7 million to modular homes
Not a recent phenomenon.
The problem now – the next step – is to identify a concrete proposal for change that can be placed before the voters.
When politics and journalism becomes a self-reinforcing echo chamber, with each side adopting the attitudes and opinions of the other, that’s good for neither.
In terms of purchasing power, each Irish resident theoretically had a €91,346 slice of GDP. However, once the Silicon Valley boys and the rest had pressed the transfer button, this was magically reduced to a €64,596 GNP slice.
Irish Bill not dead yet
Protest
If it is Dawkins, rather than some prelate, who softens the hearts of the alienated when it comes to attitudes towards the role of the church in society, then there’ll be a rich irony to the fact that he, of all people, is doing God’s work.