But Ireland can hardly complain about the refusal to admit Boylan to Israel while it maintains the absurd fiction that Ireland itself might put Netanyahu in chains and bring him to justice.
It is difficult – but by no means impossible – to see such a scenario unfolding.
And perhaps all candidates might be asked, in an ideal world, about what they think of RTE confining the debate to only eight candidates, ranging from the left to the far left.
Of the three EU constituencies, Dublin is the one with the fewest certainty. And the candidate who the polls say is the most certain has, I think, more to worry about than many of his competitors.
“A matter of urgency.”
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Decisions.
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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 […]
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