Fianna Fáil Senator Malcolm Byrne has said that the vaccinated should be “rewarded” with privileges like being able to get a pint, while the unjabbed – who he dubbed “selfish” and irresponsible – should be denied these pleasures. The comments were made in the Seanad yesterday, and show just how vicious and discriminatory our leaders […]
Tony Holohan is running the country, on Covid, because Micheál Martin will not. He does not want to. He does not know how to. The strategy, from day one, has been to let NPHET handle it, and hope that Government will take the credit, and Holohan the blame.
More and more voters are coming to the conclusion that change is required.
You’d feel sorry for them, if you didn’t realise the truth: They let him do it to them.
“Never has so much been spent to achieve so little”, said Pearse Doherty, responding to it. It is very hard to argue that he is wrong.
Rewarding one group in this fashion was always going to be seen as providing an insult to other groups. Add to that that many private sector workers and business owners suffered greatly during the pandemic, suffering financial losses for “the cause”, and what you have is not a recipe for votes, but yet another political mess for the Government, entirely of its own making.
There’s also this to consider: If the 12.5% rate is not, as he claims, of vital importance to attracting multinational investment to Ireland, why haven’t we raised it to 15% ourselves, voluntarily, years ago?
The real question here is not, in truth, “could he win”, so much as “why on earth would he want to run for the job in the first place?”. Nonetheless, he told the Irish Independent at the weekend, he is not ruling it out: “I’ll see what state I’m in in 2025. At the moment, […]
How remarkably convenient that the Fianna Fáil election post-mortem – 18 months late – should conclude that the party’s miserable performance at the polls at the last election was really the fault of pro-life TDs, and not at all the fault of Micheál Martin and his leadership. One might almost get the impression that a […]
Nobody told Micheál Martin that Katherine Zappone was to get the big job in New York until it arrived at Cabinet, in the form of a behind the scenes agreement amongst Fine Gael Ministers, and the hapless Taoiseach was bounced into going along with it. In the immediate aftermath, he had the look of a […]
Perhaps An Taoiseach Micheál Martin now understands what Groucho Marx meant when he said that he would not want to be a member of a club that would have him as a member. I am thinking here in the context of a dinner reportedly hosted by for former Minister, now newly appointed Special Envoy for […]
You cannot blame those in Fianna Fáil – led by serial rebel Marc MacSharry – who have, at the twenty-ninth hour, decided that the time has come for a change in leadership. There is nothing else, after all, left to try. The party’s performance in the Dublin Bay South bye-election was so abysmal, so humiliating, […]