Like the prospect of execution, which is said to sharpen the mind wonderfully, the imminent passage of the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022 has had the effect of alerting the minds of Irish people to the dangers it presents to their freedom of speech. My first involvement with […]
This makes no sense
There’s a difference in other words between high status lunacy and low status lunacy.
If you believe it is nonsense, you have a duty to say so, even if it makes some grown man cry in his dress.
“We’ll assess it.”
Low deportations
Soaked
It’s the classic Irish political solution – do somethingism
They absolutely adore issues of public concern that have basically nothing to do with their own areas of responsibility.
Independent Senator Michael McDowell is a barrister, and a sharp cookie. We probably don’t agree on many things, but he’s always struck me as a man who respects civil liberties and who is unafraid to voice an opinion, even an unpopular one. Today he wrote to Minister Simon Harris, to outline a devastating flaw in […]
Hurling
This is going to create a lot of problems, for a lot of people – and most of them don’t even know it yet.