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.
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?
Retired captain Yvonne Murphy, whose story featured in the RTÉ documentary, said the women were glad their voices had been heard and thanked the nation “for standing behind us”.
Families will have travel well over an hour and a half to be with their loved ones
Edosa was sentenced to five years and eight months, while Enoghaghas received a sentence of five years and one month.
“Shame on Queen’s, shame on you!”
“This proposed ‘energy park’ is just more of the same”
“Many more people are being persecuted in the world today because of their religion than are being so persecuted because of their sexual orientation,” he said.
Revenue is planning to pursue Irish crypto traders who are making large profits from digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has said. Responding to a parliamentary question by Social Democrats leader Catherine Murphy about the risk to the State of tax avoidance by individuals concealing crypto profits, Donohoe said that there are […]
The organisations mobile phone costs for staff are generally “less than €500,000 a year (including device costs).”
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