Solicitor said couple had “over 150 years of living peacefully and never causing trouble in all that time”.
A test case may be warranted here at least first before the domestic courts.
SIPO says it has not, and will not, comment on the Zappone messages, and that those claiming otherwise are incorrect.
The Department of Transport spent over €13,500 on office chairs and desks.
If you’re in your late thirties, like me, then you are just about old enough to remember the evils of inflation, and the problems it wrought on the Irish economy in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As the value of money decreased, prices went up. As prices went up, the Government tried to make […]
Zappone’s pushiness is largely a measure of the ease with which she has always got her way with our pushover politicians.
How remarkably convenient that the Fianna Fáil election post-mortem – 18 months late – should conclude that the party’s miserable performance at the polls at the last election was really the fault of pro-life TDs, and not at all the fault of Micheál Martin and his leadership. One might almost get the impression that a […]
There should be no particular mystery about why it is, this year, that the number of leaving cert students who achieved maximum points absolutely skyrocketed: Here is the share of Leaving Certificate candidates with maximum CAO points since 1995. In that year, 31 candidates (0.05%) had maximum points. In 2020, 577 candidates (1.0%) had maximum […]
One of the most frustrating things about watching Simon Coveney before the Oireachtas committee, yesterday morning, was the sure and certain knowledge that you were one of very few people actually watching it. 10am on a Tuesday morning, after all, is not a time when the average person is free to sit down, fire up […]
Just as in the 19th century, much of what happens in Ireland will depend on what people in other places decide is best for us
Are things ever going to change?
One year cooling off period