Reality check
Governments seldom fulfil promises made in pre election manifestos or even Programmes for Government. So the small and fractured Green Party can be happy that when it disappears again from public prominence, it will have left yet another toxic legacy as it did in 2011. For a party that only won 7% of the vote in the […]
Several Western governments, including Ireland’s, have taken it upon themselves in recent weeks to legally incapacitate a large number of citizens – in Ireland’s case, those unfortunate enough to work in the retail or pub and restaurant sectors – from opening the doors of their businesses. The rationale for such prohibitions is that we must […]
The European Asylum Support Office has just published its first Country of Origin Information (COI) Report on Venezuela, and the news is not good. What is genuinely startling however is the scale of the attempted exodus that has taken place. The EASO observations on the Report find that: “the deterioration of the political, security and […]