Liberator, or failure?
A recent profile of Eamonn McCann in The Irish News repeated the mythology that McCann himself has cultivated.
Last week the Social Democrats put forward a bill to lower the voting age to 16. Ben Scallan asks if they believe 16-year-olds who commit serious crimes are responsible enough to be tried as adults.
Spotlight programme
Locals this week held a public meeting to object to Government plans to purchase the Citywest Hotel and turn it into a permanent asylum hub
What Robert Jenrick gets right.
“A frightening experience”
Minister Emer Higgins is asked whether the Government’s plan to purchase Citywest and turn it into a permanent asylum hub will be cancelled if locals object strongly enough.
Portlaoise District Court
“in fear”
“We’ve been complete victims of harassment, stalking, violence.”
It is not too strong a word to describe the official Irish attitude to Israel as hatred. That is what it is: An old, cold, burning hate.