“Politics is not an easy profession.”
The whole affair is a bad advertisement for making friends in Fine Gael.
If this happened to an Irish embassy in, say, Tel Aviv, how would Ireland react? With outrage, one might suspect.
Josepha Madigan is on a linguistic crusade. Gendered language is the heresy that needs to be taken down. Where better to begin than with a newspaper with a ‘backward’ title from a part of the country liberal Dublin loves to sneer at? I would suspect The Kerryman newspaper’s readers won’t appreciate the crusading zeal of […]
In your life, have you ever spent a day wondering why the Kerryman newspaper is called the Kerryman, and not the Kerry people? Chances are, you have not. Josepha Madigan, on the other hand, feels so strongly about it that she went on national radio yesterday to urge that the name be changed, so that […]
Josepha Madigan has come under fire for the second time after making what were deemed to be unacceptable remarks about children with special needs. In fact, no sooner had she read an apology for one misstatement into the Dáil, than she had to make a second for another claim which equally appalled the already hard-pressed […]
Standing in the Irish Parliament on Wednesday morning, Minister for Arts and Culture, Josepha Madigan, led one minute’s silence to show, “our abhorrence of and rejection of,” all forms of racism. Nothing wrong with that, you might say, except Josepha Madigan is on record for aggressively and successfully forcing through a campaign to block the […]
Last night, Fine Gael members in her Dun Laoghaire constituency voted, in effect, to boot Maria Bailey from the Fine Gael ticket for the next General Election, whenever that might come: The meeting last night heard from Deputy Bailey and her detractors, with some calling for her removal from the party ticket. A majority voted […]
The IFA has said farmers whose land has been designated as a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) are not being properly compensated by Minister Josepha Madigan at the Department of Heritage.