It is not the next election that the Irish establishment should fear. It is the one after that.
Gaza might be dominating politics, as Pat Leahy wrote on Friday. But immigration is dominating the minds of voters.
‘People of Roscrea need fair play and respect’
They knew, and yet he remained. And remains.
This is an argument that might wash in the opinion pages of the Irish Times. I am unconvinced that it will persuade many of the locals in Roscrea, or elsewhere.
It is, perhaps, the stupidest three paragraphs of text ever suggested to an Irish Government.
In 2019, a Fine Gael Cabinet Minister openly demanded a “national debate” on immigration “now”, and said many of the same things that local communities are saying about migration today, except with minimal controversy. What changed, asks Ben Scallan?
A church that speaks out on Christian doctrine only when that doctrine happens to coincidentally serve the political needs of the state is, in this writer’s estimation, barely worthy of the name.
“Sometimes rules are applied, sometimes they’re not.”
“For Roderic O’Gorman to send down heavy-handed men to push people and shove women and children is totally wrong…what happened could have been avoided”: Roscrea locals discuss asylum centre controversy.
Our political class now appears to be in such a desperate state of panic that the apparent priority here was not to think matters through, but to rush the story into print.
Conflicting messages