Like a lot of centre left parties around the world, Jacinda Ardern’s New Zealand Labour Party entered the recent New Zealand election pledging to raise taxes on the rich. At first glance, New Zealand Labour and it’s leader is everything the Irish left dreams of having here in Ireland – a young, unabashedly liberal, female […]
A judge has ordered the arrest of former Labour senator James Heffernan (40) after the Limerick man failed to appear at Dublin District Court on charges of theft and an offence against the Public Order Act.
On Saturday, more than three weeks will have passed since the General Election, and Ireland still has no obvious Government in sight. It is now expected that the next attempt by the Dáil to elect a new Taoiseach may not take place until the end of March. Yesterday, Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín noted the somewhat […]
A Labour party deputy leadership candidate has said babies are not born with a sex and that talking about biological reality is “dog whistle transphobia.”
Politics is supposed to be a simple enough activity. The basic idea is that various parties put forward ideas for how the country should be governed, the voters choose between the various offerings, and the people who get the largest number of seats in the parliament then have the power to form a Government that […]
A new report published today has revealed that 92% of renters in Dublin Docklands are coming from abroad to work in the city – and they are pricing locals out of the rental market. The Docklands Residential Report 2020 is published by Owen Reilly Estate Agency which sells and rents homes in the area. They found that […]
It’s a brave new world for the IRS: taxing robots. Uncle Sam is padding the Treasury with millions of dollars to assess bots at the same time that corporations invest more in advanced technology and labor-saving machinery, according to experts. New “robot” taxes are expected to multiply in the coming decades as millions of Americans […]