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
Irish journalists now know when not to report uncomfortable truths
The fact that someone in the mainstream media holds this view and broadcasts it so publicly, beggars belief.
I don’t want to hear any more lectures on fake news, misinformation or lectures on not stirring up division from the likes of the Irish Times or indeed anyone in the mainstream Irish media
And perhaps the involvement of successful businesspeople can make the state more efficient.
There is nobody credible in Ireland who believes that Eoin Hayes is a racist, yet here he is, apologising for alleged racism.
That is how the Irish media works.