To blame Roderic O’Gorman is to concede that Irish policy contributed to the crisis and made it worse, and since official Ireland backed the policy wholeheartedly, this cannot be acknowledged.
Wokeness is ultimately an attitude. It is reflected in the perpetual disappointment that our leaders appear to feel towards the people they govern.
Yes, the media will grab the label ‘far-right’ from the top drawer, give it a good polish and slap it on any vote that does not go their way.
It is Government interference in the market, not the market itself, that has caused this problem.
That’s two of the media’s top two topics – Gaza and RTE – barely registering with the electorate at all, while the voters care about things that have been shunted significantly down the news agenda.
For all the left talk about “privilege”, their attitudes on core issues are increasingly those of the privileged, not the deprived.
If you didn’t know who she was, you might think you’d woken up from a coma, and were listening to John Bruton or Bertie Ahern, circa 1997.
We must be purer than pure, when surrounded by such moral degeneracy. John Charles McQuaid and Eamon Ryan have this much in common: They both desired, or desire, Ireland to be a beacon of virtue to a fallen globe.
Who checks the fact checkers?
Such an environment makes the duty of the press to verify its facts even more solemn.
Independents and Others have intrinsic value, but very often votes parked in that column are votes that are really saying “I have nothing and nobody to vote for”.
Tolerance?