A needless proposal for change
Chileans have rejected a proposed new leftist constitution by around 62% to 38%. The far left, whose rioting in 2019 was largely responsible for setting the process in train, has reacted predictably. The proposed new constitution was to have included a number of key changes central to which was the expansion of the state under […]
Historically ignorant
Nor, for the record, has Government even made such a proposal.
To the extent that there are differences, they are differences of tone, not of approach.
“Remember the “living with polio” campaign?” said Irish journalist Philip O’Connor the other day. Nope, me neither.
Mr. Ganley, and all those who supported him in taking the case, have every right to feel aggrieved.
You know that scene in the first Jurassic Park movie, where Jeff Goldblum’s character says “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn’t stop to think if they should”? That’s a great summation of where Irish politicians are at; just throwing policy after policy at the wall to see […]
The European Court of Human Rights has rejected the complaints of several Irish political and media figureheads, after they objected to the presidential oath’s reference to “Almighty God.” As it stands, as bearla the oath reads: “In the presence of Almighty God, I, [name], do solemnly and sincerely promise and declare that I will maintain […]
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki writes on the balance between national and international law.
Background Bunreacht na hÉireann became the fundamental legal code of the Irish nation-state in 1937 and has since been amended over thirty times. These amendments reflect the Nation’s, underlying, collective psyche as it evolves over time and under the pressure of modernity. Ranging from the acceptance of the European Union’s (EU) legal supremacy, to the […]
Businessman Declan Ganley has called on the Irish Bishops to “open their churches” in defiance of lockdown after his constitutional case against the state in relation to the right to worship was delayed yet again. His case – which states that the ban on public worship is illegal under the Irish constitution – was originally […]