The world is awash with disturbing news: war in Ukraine, war in Israel, Europe going down the tubes, RFK Jr running as an independent (how dare he?). While World War III could well be upon us, the most grievously underreported story — an event that essentially never was in US media — occurred in the […]
it turns out that “I will not relent” actually means, in Mr. Cosgrave’s case, “I will relent as soon as my financial interests are at stake”.
Ardern-mania subsides
The Department of Education has more employees, and a bigger budget, than Tesco Ireland. Norma Foley is undoubtedly a decent woman with good intentions. But nobody would ever have hired her to run Tesco.
Chris Rowan
‘All Lives Matter’
A cynic might suggest Cosgrave’s opinions can be swayed and changed based on his bottom line. But given his long record of suggesting that Irish politicians have been bought and sold by special interests, surely that would not be the case here.
One thing to take into account here is that these figures are based on Ireland having an average winter, like last year’s, with only a few relatively short periods of severe cold.
Fewer people are learning to drive because fewer people have anywhere to go.
Visits home?
Priorities?
If Von Der Leyen is exceeding her constitutional remit – and she is – then that should not be a surprise. It is the natural consequence of creating her position in the first place