That yesterday’s budget was a cynical exercise in vote buying is beyond any doubt. The problem for the opposition is that if the usual laws of politics apply, then it is very likely to work.
Gript’s Ben Scallan asks Public Expenditure Minister what “lessons” exactly have been learned from successive cost overruns on State projects. #Budget2025
Minister Heather Humphreys denies that the government announcing the biggest Social Protection budget ever right before an election is an attempt to buy votes: “It’s about supporting people.” Question by Ben Scallan
Oh, by the way – fill your car with diesel today. If the Greens get their way, it will cost you more tomorrow.
Thus is the Government operating on immigration: Having started the fire, they now stand before you promising to douse the flames and get matters back under control.
The Government should make Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) free for “all women experiencing menopause”, a Fine Gael Senator has said. In a statement, Senator Maria Byrne said investment is needed to help women that are facing high medical costs associated with menopause. “Currently, HRT is free for medical card holders, but many women without a […]
If you can’t beat em, join ‘em.
“Children were beaten and humiliated on a daily basis.”
There are reasons Fine Gael and its new leader remain popular.
The stunning thing here, really, is that the polling consistently now has Sinn Fein on course to lose seats, rather than gain them, at the next election.
Our céad míle fáilte is not some uniquely Irish thing that foreigners wouldn’t understand: It’s just the Irish word for Wilkommenskultur. That didn’t help the Germans, and it won’t help us, either.
TD left Fine Gael over abortion stance in 2018