Breaking our own fiscal rules; expecting others to subsidise our defence; lecturing the rest of the EU on foreign policy. It’s a bad combination.
Sorry, was there overnight a constitutional coup that no-one told us about, ie, so that foreign policy decisions are now made in the Aras, and not Iveagh House?
Free speech has to extend to extend even to the dumbest slogans, otherwise it is not free at all.
‘nightmare’
The GAA has now set a precedent that it can, and will, be pushed around into making political statements. That was a mistake. And not one, even, that will do a single thing for a soul in the Gaza strip.
Hamas did not commit the October 7 massacres because of some frustration over the lack of Palestinian statehood.
If Israel wanted to inflict a genocide on Gaza, it could have done so by last Christmas.
I’m increasingly nervous about a prediction I made at the start of the year.
The university will divest from investments in Israeli companies as part of the deal.
“Solidarity with the students of Trinity College Dublin.”
“Massive human massacres”
It is very hard to overstate what a lucky country Ireland is in geographic political terms