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Honestly, you should all watch this video, a leftover from yesterday, if you haven’t already. It really makes you wonder: Where would Ireland be, without Simon Coveney? ICYMI:Simon Coveney is an asset to Ireland and his record is clear. Housing, health and the vaccine roll-out, education, climate action, quality of life. These are the areas […]
One of the few things that growing up in Monaghan fails to instill in a person, sadly, is any great affinity for boats, or the sea. My own experience on the Ocean extends no further than once having been permitted by my wife to captain a pedal boat on an overseas holiday. It ended, alas, […]
Fine Gael’s newest plan: 40% of company directors must be women by law. Ben Scallan reacts. #gript
It is perception that matters most in the arena of contemporary consensus politics
Nursing homes were badly hit during the Covid crisis, with thousands of deaths amongst elderly people,
Zappone’s pushiness is largely a measure of the ease with which she has always got her way with our pushover politicians.
Serious question here: Why does Emer Higgins’ new bill, which would see companies forced to reserve 40% of the seats on their boards for women, stop at just forty per cent? If you believe, as she clearly does, in the value of legislatively mandated equal representation for the two genders, then why not simply go […]
On the one hand, it is perfectly understandable that Leo Varadkar’s legion of defenders – both those who are true blue Fine Gaelers, and those who are not, but who think the Tánaiste is unfairly targeted by his critics – should feel put out by the latest controversy engulfing their man. Yes, every single one […]
Senator Craughwell stated, there is also no getting away from the fact that the public perception is that “If you’re in the club you’ll be looked after.”
the current ruling coalition is throwing money away to the short term benefit of reducing housing lists, but to the long term gain of the investor funds,
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 […]
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