The man is not the nation’s leader. He is a civil servant who has gotten – on a historic scale – far, far, too big for his boots.
Yet Recovery Cert limited to 6 months?
Nuclear will be needed to ensure energy security and Ireland’s future.
“A tax on hope”, he would call it, claiming that it convinced worse off people to throw money they could not afford at tickets every week
But the conclusion is still inescapable to anybody with eyes to see: We’re in this mess in part because the vaccines are not what they were advertised to be.
Bats or Lab leak?
Case fell apart
Any responsible leader, writer, or activist, observing this, should be, in the words of William F. Buckley, “standing athwart history, yelling stop”.
What we’re seeing now, though, is the inexorable collapse of trust in the authorities.
The Green Party seems to have said the quiet part out loud
Irish politics is an immensely silly business. No wonder they leave the real decisions about running the country to Dr. Holohan, and his team.
Whatever the root causes may be, and those are just two educated guesses, the public hysteria about covid is objectively a much bigger threat to the long term security and prosperity of the state than covid itself.