Yes, the media will grab the label ‘far-right’ from the top drawer, give it a good polish and slap it on any vote that does not go their way.
Patrick Kielty is by all accounts a very fine fellow and a nice man, but the ratings do not lie. The public, in this first year at the helm for him, just isn’t buying what he’s selling.
Even if she’s missing half her face (as one rumourmonger suggested), hiding that fact won’t change it.
Fianna Fáil TD John McGuinness, ex-Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, says that Media Minister Catherine Martin has shown “poor judgement” in her handling of the RTÉ crisis, and says RTÉ may only be the tip of the iceberg regarding wasteful State-funded bodies.
From climate to immigration
The UK Government should tell the Americans, just this once, to bugger off.
What I will say is this: Village is in the financial position it is in precisely because nobody is buying what it is selling.
The Israelis, I’m afraid, do not always make life easy for their friends.
Arguments about misinformation cannot be sustained when the Government itself is openly misinforming voters about the consequences of what they are asking the public to vote on.
It is to the states’ shame that the Ditch had to go fighting for this information, and to the Ditch’s very great credit that they went and fought for it.
After all, everybody knows that misinformation can only come from the hated “far right”, right?
As ever in Ireland, a big change will happen slowly, and then all at once.