‘I campaigned for ‘yes’, but I voted ‘no’
“The first person they prosecute will end up a martyr”.
“Trial by Twitter is not the way we should be doing things.”
Echo chamber.
The political parties in the state barely compete with each other at all on issues that matter to the voters but compete with the utmost intensity on the issues that matter to an elitist group of NGOs and lobby groups.
The new Hate Crime Bill, introduced by Senators Lisa Chambers, Fiona O’Loughlin, and Robbie Gallagher last week is a remarkably poor piece of legislation. You can read it all here. The bill creates a new offence of “aggravated hate crime”. What it essentially tries to do is to tack motive onto existing crimes as an […]
The deliberate setting on fire of the Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos has led to a renewed campaign by European Pollyannas to pressurise EU member states to take in more people. Leftists in the European Parliament, including the GUE/NGL of which Sinn Féin is a member have demanded that all 12,500 […]
To lose one agriculture minister might be regarded as a misfortune. To lose two, the IFA might have said to the Taoiseach last night, is just rank carelessness: Cullinan said: “We are very concerned about the disruption caused by the loss of two Ministers for Agriculture since the new government was formed, and reports that […]
Remember back in October of last year when Fianna Fail TD’s Timmy Dooley, Niall Collins and Lisa Chambers were all exposed as having repeatedly engaged in voting ‘irregularities’ in the Dáil? To be sure, it all seems like a lifetime ago now. But at the time, the scandal was given significant coverage and it even […]