Gaza might be dominating politics, as Pat Leahy wrote on Friday. But immigration is dominating the minds of voters.
None of this will make the slightest bit of difference to events in Gaza. Nor, for that matter, to the majority of voters in the country.
Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh
Paying the price for war
Six month tenure
In a referendum campaign, the side that tells the better story usually wins.
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.
“You’re obsessed with hate speech”: Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin bats away a question by Ben Scallan about whether calling for the destruction of Israel would count as “hate speech” under his bill. He added: “I’m not interested in the legislation.” #gript
“We’re approaching web summit, but on a national scale”, was how one TD expressed their concerns to me yesterday.
After 50 days spent captive
50 hostages to be freed
Debate ended in shouts of “Allahu Akbar”