Fine Gael, clearly, is not a happy political party. And the blame for that starts at the very top.
We’ve gone from a society that sees people’s life choices as dangerous and immoral and something that needs constant denunciation to….. this, I guess.
Honestly, as proposals from politicians go, this is an early – and likely to be hard to beat – contender for worst of the year.
What message is being sent, here, to the hundreds of thousands of children who play Gaelic Games daily, and weekly? Effectively, it seems to be that cheating (whether deliberate or inadvertent) is okay, so long as you don’t get caught or nobody complains.
We are repeating mistakes that have been made by other countries before us.
The threat the “far right” poses is not to the public, but to the media and the establishment.
For some, this whole process has been emotionally satisfying: There is a hunger, in some quarters, to see somebody, at long last, stand up to the Irish establishment and fight.
Mr. Wall, after all, could have a pristine, totally clear criminal record, and he would not have been on RTE if his song was entitled “immigration is too high”.
When Eminem calls women “cunts”, it’s art. When Andrew Tate does it, it’s misogyny.
Thomas Ashe trained as a teacher and worked as a school principal in Lusk, Co. Dublin. He was a poet, piper and talented singer and having being reared in the Gaeltacht in Kerry, was an avid supporter of the Irish language. This brought him to the governing body of the Gaelic League, he was also […]
And indeed, people who would turn their faces away aghast from such rhetoric, coming from an angry truck driver with a megaphone, will instead nod soberly when it comes from a genteel columnist
The recommendation is one 27 wide-ranging recommendations outlined in the Committee’s Report on Minorities Engaging with the Justice System.