Yes, the media will grab the label ‘far-right’ from the top drawer, give it a good polish and slap it on any vote that does not go their way.
It’s another instance of our leaders passively admitting something in their actions that they cannot say with their words: That Ireland’s stance on Gaza – whether it is morally correct or incorrect – is politically toxic in the United States,
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day, everyone, and thanks as ever for your readership
Clúid
Is history being written by the victors?
The obvious question is whether artists who travel to Texas to attend a festival are entitled to taxpayer funding for their flights and accommodation when they then decide not to bother playing at the event – the whole reason we were funding them to go in the first place?
Deep down as women we have bought the lie that any failure to be represented in equal measure in the work place / public sphere is a sure sign of inequality (enter quotas and positive discrimination).
It all goes back to an attitude problem: Listening to many Irish politicians, you get the permanent impression that they’re entirely sick of dealing with us
Irish children
There is protest, there is symbolism, and then there is childish student union politics without thought to diplomacy. Not the for the first time, from Holly Cairns, this only fits one of those categories.
Straight to rental
Patrick Kielty is by all accounts a very fine fellow and a nice man, but the ratings do not lie. The public, in this first year at the helm for him, just isn’t buying what he’s selling.