When the Government increases the minimum wage, it takes money directly from employers, and puts it in the pockets of employees.
As the debate around transgender biological males in women’s sports comes to a head, you’d imagine that a group like Labour Women would be on the side of – well, biological women. But alas, that would make too much sense. Tweeting from their official account last night, the group reposted a Journal.ie article advocating for […]
Independent
They are a party that pretends to represent the working people, but actually represent the concerns of the ruling class, almost in their entirety.
On Newstalk Breakfast, Gript Editor John McGuirk goes toe to toe with Ivana Bacik on hate crime and hate speech laws.
A party of the people? No more.
“You could not make it up,” Danny Healy-Rae TD said on the Labour Party’s proposed carbon footprint labelling on food, dubbing the idea a “lunatic” proposal. The comments were made yesterday in the Dáil during a debate on the policy and Ireland’s carbon emissions. Danny Healy-Rae on Labour's proposal to mandate labelling of products with […]
Paddy Cosgrave, pictured above, is the founder and CEO of the Web Summit, which was a staple event of the Irish calendar for a period in the 2010’s, until an infamous dispute about WIFI coverage in the RDS forced Paddy and guests to decamp to Portugal to hold the annual event. Back then, Paddy Cosgrave […]
There were all sorts of rumours and speculation as the polls closed in the Dublin Bay South bye-election. The slightly higher turnout in Ringsend and Pearse Street as compared to the places where people dress up for dinner, apparently, had some pundits predicting that Lynn Boylan of Sinn Féin was going to emulate Mark Ward […]
Bye-elections are a curious beast, not least because with just one electoral area, and therefore a smallish number of candidates, the focus of politicos becomes hyper-intense. There’s gangs of them digging for gold, or even votes, in the leafy streets of Dublin Bay South at the moment. Ministers are pictured getting down with the party juniors […]
On Thursday, the good people of one of Ireland’s wealthiest constituencies, and one of its most liberal, will go to the polls to select a replacement TD, after Fine Gael’s Eoghan Murphy decided – quite rationally – that he had just about had enough of the carry on in Leinster House. In a constituency that […]
On June 11th, 2004, sixteen and a half years ago, the Irish people went to the polls to vote on the 27th amendment to the constitution. The proposal in front of them was to strip from the constitution the automatic right to citizenship conferred on every child born on Irish soil. Instead, prior to the […]