In the last two years alone, the state will have spent twenty billion euros more than it took in, even with a record tax take.
This is apparently not new
Many readers of this publication are sure to have read Fintan O’Toole’s latest piece in The Irish Times which attempted to neatly categorise disparate vaccine sceptic social groups ‘in order of purposeful malignity’.[1] According to O’Toole there are three distinct are vaccine sceptic social groups, namely egotists, paranoiacs, and fascists. O’Toole, whom I suspect did […]
It should not fall to Gript – a tiny outlet with four or five staff – to report these things
€571,000 spend on social media alone
That’s a mark of where our culture is, and what people feel it necessary to say, to prove their own normality and cultural sensitivity.
‘Changing the public narrative’
Whatever the root causes may be, and those are just two educated guesses, the public hysteria about covid is objectively a much bigger threat to the long term security and prosperity of the state than covid itself.
The Taoiseach, asked about an Austrian lockdown for the unvaccinated, did not quite rule it out. Therefore, a journalist can quite honestly write a piece saying “Taoiseach refuses to rule out lockdown for the unvaccinated”.
One rule that is a good one to abide by in life is this: Never be mean or rude to somebody knocking at your door. That goes especially for political canvassers: Most of them are party volunteers, not responsible for setting policy, and are doing something good and healthy in a democracy: getting involved and […]
People who disagree with RTE on any of these issues, and continue to pay the licence fee, are wilfully and consciously funding their enemies.
In Ireland, we demand total conformity with whatever the pieties of the day might be, and then re-define those pieties as tolerance and compassion.