The Minister for Health, despite his Harvard degrees and his once-touted administrative mind, cannot solve scoliosis, or waiting lists, or fix Limerick hospital. So he’s going to give your kids the pill, and call himself a progressive while doing so.
Robert Emmett was an Irish Republican and patriot, orator and rebel leader.
We got a Government and a society that is both institutionally incompetent on the big problems, and institutionally tyrannical on the small stuff.
Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla urged Mexicans to rise up against the Spanish-born ruling class.
A mistake, in retrospect.
The British authorities called it a ‘dangerous assembly, because of this the first Dáil had to meet in secret at different locations.
Only a fool meddles with a system that is producing good outcomes
The Battle of Stirling Bridge was a battle of the First War of Scottish Independence, Scottish rebel William Wallace and others defeated the English at Stirling Bridge.
If it’s just another political memoir about climbing the greasy pole and getting bored once you reach the top, then we can toss it in the “I might read that later” column, with all the other political memoirs.
‘An Rí’, a play as Gaeilge, written by Pádraig Mac Piarais, will be performed by Aisteoirí Thamhlachta next Saturday and Sunday in Gleann na Smól Co. Dublin (besides Tallaght) at 4:30pm.
In modern democracies, political offices are just one of a whole series of interlocking institutions that wield political power. Capturing one of them is not enough. There are no shortcuts.
Millions either died or emigrated as a result of the catastrophic failures of the authorities