Increasingly the non-productive class
At Odds With EU Centrists
Fianna Fáil has just put forward a bill seeking to restrict the use of AI deepfakes for fraudulent purposes without the depicted person’s permission. Ben Scallan asks if this will apply to parodies and political satire as well.
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Election2024
“The parties in government will be judged by how the government does overall”: Gript’s @Ben_Scallan asks Irish Finance Minister Michael McGrath what unique contributions Fianna Fáil has made to the upcoming budget, and about the Green Party’s disproportionate influence on government policy. #gript
In this atmosphere, the prospect of all the major players bleeding votes to alternative options at the next election is high
It’s the contrast between a country that takes politics seriously, and a country in which nobody, nobody at all, takes any real responsibility for governing.
A Fianna Fáil Senator says that media should not have to give equal time to both sides on issues like climate change – even during a referendum campaign. @Ben_Scallan reacts.
Is that so?
Amid the ongoing cost of living crisis, as fuel and energy prices soar, a Fianna Fáil Senator has hit out at the lack of a “non-binary” gender option on the census. And they wonder why they’re falling behind in the polls. The comments were made this week by Senator Fiona O’Loughlin during the order of […]
on the substance, Willie O’Dea is right: Fianna Fáil has become, in Government, functionally indistinguishable from Fine Gael.