The general assumption of pro-neutrality people in Ireland tends to be that because the threats to us are so low, defence is really not a requirement.
“We’re going to be dealing with these arms for decades and pay the price here.”
“Dependence on China for life.”
Ireland has a Government whose mouth writes cheques its ass can’t cash.
The noose tightens.
Pieter Cleppe of the Brussels Report discusses the rise of European conservatism, the economic future of the EU, and who attacked the Nordstream pipeline.
“Carbon sinks.”
Many of us, I think, have arrived at the conclusion that something here is fundamentally wrong. Something is broken.
BEN SCALLAN: A century after the War of Independence, Ireland now finds itself in the humiliating position of having to beg a European body to use our own generators and avoid freezing in the winter:
Teaming up.
Embarrassing.
“The Irish fishing industry has reached breaking point.”