Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said that Ireland has “benefitted from cheap food for a long time,” and said that he believes food prices will go up due to the conflict in Ukraine. The remarks were made in the Dáil this week while speaking to Independent TD Michael McNamara, who said that food shortages in western […]
“Remember the “living with polio” campaign?” said Irish journalist Philip O’Connor the other day. Nope, me neither.
You know that scene in the first Jurassic Park movie, where Jeff Goldblum’s character says “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn’t stop to think if they should”? That’s a great summation of where Irish politicians are at; just throwing policy after policy at the wall to see […]
A priest who said that he will not be following what he called an “off the cuff” statement by an Tánaiste Leo Varadkar on cancelling Communions and Confirmations due to Covid-19 has received widespread support on social media. Fr Michael Toomey tweeted Mr Varadkar to say he was “planning to celebrate the two Confirmations in my […]
BEN SCALLAN: With US election day behind us, Irish mainstream politicians have spent the last week doing what they do best – being petty and embarrassing Ireland on the world stage. “Would Varadkar rather insult Trump than save the Irish economy?”: https://www.facebook.com/580763859048353/videos/639432636611084 #gript
Much is being made here of Biden being a “friend indeed to Ireland.” Actually if you examine these paeans what you generally find is that the purveyor of this means that he will be a friend to their friends, and unlike Trump, knows some mediocre poet who is also their chum. Real cosmopolitans are our […]
Was Leo Varadkar’s speech a “shameless PR exercise”? PLUS: what steps should the government be taking to beat Covid-19? #gript