On the face of it, the idea that the local gardai should have the discretion to be able to inform women if their partners have convictions for domestic violence is a good one.
It’s not just an insult to Nolan – it’s an insult to the public who, apparently, can’t be trusted to have basic conversations about obvious and reasonable questions.
Kamikaze move.
Groupthink Ireland.
We don’t do things by halves, in Ireland – no mild experiment with Blairism for us. If we go left, we’re going to go proper left.
In the period before the referendum on repealing the 8th, Fianna Fáil TD Jack Chambers took some flak online for taking a pro-life stance. Things got ugly on Twitter, and the Dublin West TD eventually switched off his notifications. He supported a No vote in the referendum, but after the 8th was repealed, he voted […]
Perhaps the most frightening thing, if you are a Fianna Fáil partisan, is this: The party is on 15%, and it doesn’t seem to care.
The opposition, of course, always wants an election. Or to be precise, always pretends to want an election.
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.
“The government isn’t thinking this through.”
The Government has the tools, if it sees migrant numbers as a problem, to reduce them.
The real problem here is that all of this likely means that the next General election will see a result quite similar to the last one.