Energy policy is perhaps the single biggest strategic question facing western countries in the longer term. Ireland’s persistent refusal to consider the cleanest, most efficient, alternative to fossil fuels is completely baffling.
In the past couple of years, do you ever get the feeling that Ireland has just lurched from one blinding panic to another like a cat on a hot tin roof? If so, you definitely aren’t imagining it. Don’t get me wrong: basically every country on earth freaked out about Covid and was hurt by […]
The problem with this idea is that unless you fix the underlying problem, a price fixing law will ultimately destroy businesses and lead to shortages
According to AA Ireland, petrol and diesel costs are at record highs as Applegreen warns of massive increases in fuel costs for consumers. The comments come as fuel prices soar across Europe due to a variety of factors. These include inflation, supply chain issues from the Covid lockdown, government charges like Carbon Tax, and overreliance […]
ISIS have celebrated Russia’s war in Ukraine, calling it “divine punishment” and expressing hope that the conflict will spread to other European countries. According to an editorial in ISIS magazine Al Naba (“The News”), the Russian invasion of Ukraine is “divine punishment” sent upon the European “infidels” by Allah. They say that the conflict “will […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the heavy Western sanctions leveled against his country are “akin to a declaration of war” amid his ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The sanctions imposed on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine have been severe, with certain Russian banks being kicked off the SWIFT financial system, and Western countries […]
At some point, perhaps soon, perhaps later, Ireland’s younger voters will realise that this is a country with increasingly nothing to offer them except for rainbows, and symbolism
Unless this problem magically disappears all by itself, then politicians – and we, the public – are in line for a whole world of pain
Since 2016, in fact, increases in rent in RPZs has been limited to 4% per year, or the rate of inflation.
Government policy in almost every area of Irish life is driving prices through the roof.
Landlords in Ireland are fleeing the market in record numbers. Here is a secret: They are not fleeing the market because there is too little regulation.
In the last two years alone, the state will have spent twenty billion euros more than it took in, even with a record tax take.