If Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael continue to practice it, they will be ruined along with the country as well.
The media tells us that it has standards. In this case, as is so very often the case, those standards appear to have taken a week off.
There used to be a time when social cancellation was not only acceptable, but the norm.
Radio presenters learned there and then that “playing it safe” was the way to keep their jobs, while creating controversy was a way to lose your job.
Catherine Connolly might loathe the comparison, but she is benefitting from the same dynamic as Donald Trump
Put simply, “K-Pop Demon Hunters” shows that people still recognise and subscribe to basic moral principles
The fact that conservatives cannot even get a mildly conservative person like Maria Steen on the ballot is a shocking indictment of, well, the Irish conservative machine.
“The right thing would have been public loyalty to a friend, but Watson instead chose a form of public piety”
The political class might also remember some other timeless wisdom – absence makes the heart grow fonder.
I have been a fool.
If you want to spoil your vote, that’s a matter for you but it will not hurt either FF or FG.
Being insensitive and generally unamusing is not a government concern