“Never has so much been spent to achieve so little”, said Pearse Doherty, responding to it. It is very hard to argue that he is wrong.
Says Polish law has primacy
when it comes to the carbon tax, progressives in Ireland do not care so much about the impact on the poor
The whole point of the carbon tax in theory is that it shifts behaviour – that it is a “nudge” in the right direction. But in reality, it does not do that, because investing in the ability to use alternative fuels is beyond the average household.
Put figures like these together with the impact of shuttering various health screening services for months at a time, and there is a reasonable case to be made that lockdown may have cost – or at minimum, ruined – many more lives than it saved.
“An apology and clarification from RTÉ is much needed for the Polish community”: Anna Sochańska, Polish Ambassador to Ireland
100% redress, Donegal Protestors march on Dublin Streets, Dublin, 8th October 2021
the message is not a cruel or a harsh one: It might be said to be a Catholic message, in fact, and a mild rebuke, whether intended or not, to Martin Luther. Salvation does not come, on Crockett Island, through faith alone. Faith alone is not enough.
In Ireland, we demand total conformity with whatever the pieties of the day might be, and then re-define those pieties as tolerance and compassion.
If the Government had any decency, it would resign in disgrace.
The TD blasted the HSE for” wasting money on its new-found role as a ministry of truth.”
Trying to raid the super-rich for tax is a fool’s errand