The last prison built in this country was the Midlands Prison, which opened in 2000 when the population was 3.84 million.
Amid claims SF does not support extension
We have a nationally accepted expectation that our politicians will act in the local interest first, and the national interest second.
Sinn Féin is complaining that “nasty actors” online are saying they support open borders. To help explain why people are saying this, Ben Scallan takes a deep dive into their immigration policies going back decades.
BEN SCALLAN: “Ireland’s political and media establishment are now having to answer questions that have never come up before about border security, and justify policies which went unchallenged for years. And it turns out they’re not very good at it.”
Harris has now denied this accusation on the record of the Dáil. The burden is on Carthy to prove him guilty. And that burden has not, as yet, been met: Simon Harris says he is considering a complaint to the Dáil procedures committee over Matt Carthy’s “misuse of Dáil privilege” — Hugh O'Connell (@oconnellhugh) September […]