Amidst a crime crisis, an electricity crisis, the likely loss of our keystone corporation tax rate, the aftermath of the longest lockdown in the western world, record waiting lists, record homelessness, and record house prices, it really comforts the soul to know that Ireland’s political leaders are focused on the issues that matter to each and every one of us:
Rewarding one group in this fashion was always going to be seen as providing an insult to other groups. Add to that that many private sector workers and business owners suffered greatly during the pandemic, suffering financial losses for “the cause”, and what you have is not a recipe for votes, but yet another political mess for the Government, entirely of its own making.
Politicians aren’t listening to logical, evidence-based arguments.
Thanksgiving as an Irish bank holiday is truly a brown-nosing, genuflecting gesture absolutely no one has ever asked for – not even Americans. But that didn’t deter our pals in Fine Gael from suggesting this shiny new way to further water down Irish culture. “Are you in favour of a Thanksgiving Bank Holiday on Monday, […]
Education and exams and standards are there for a reason.
“Then again, very few of those who work for Big Tech are allowed to join trade unions”
Saying “I told you so” is a rather unpleasant trait in a person, but there are times when it cannot be avoided. Last week, on these pages, I wrote that: the Government can live with electricity blackouts if they only affect the hapless citizenry. Such blackouts can be blamed on other factors: Maintenance. The need […]
There’s also this to consider: If the 12.5% rate is not, as he claims, of vital importance to attracting multinational investment to Ireland, why haven’t we raised it to 15% ourselves, voluntarily, years ago?
A medical ethicist and psychiatrist is suing his employer, the University of California
Slammed military leadership
Research never said religion “irrational”
This is the cost of lockdown that has gotten hardly any attention in Ireland.