The more RTE slowly bleeds credibility with a section of the population, the more imperiled its long term survivability becomes.
A crisis is coming and is long overdue. Whether she knows it or not, President Connolly would actually be doing her country a service by provoking it.
Until you see all these people on stage, facing off against each other, the polls are a bit of a nonsense.
“Saint Michael, defend us in battle…”
A generic Sinn Fein candidate losing is one thing. Putting the party leader out there would be another thing altogether.
Wide open for a capable, credible, and compelling populist candidacy.
Readers who observe these things will also perhaps note the grovelling being done by the Irish Government towards the new Trump administration
Another questionable outing for El Presidente.
Journalism, someone once said, is about holding a mirror up to your society.
The Tánaiste has largely been reduced to standing in the background and nodding his approval, like a lesser Burke family member during an Enoch video.
Sorry, was there overnight a constitutional coup that no-one told us about, ie, so that foreign policy decisions are now made in the Aras, and not Iveagh House?
Taoiseach Simon Harris distances himself from a letter in which President Higgins gave the Iranian regime his “best wishes”, saying the letter is not government policy: “We have fundamental differences with Iran, and I’ll always continue to call out their human rights abuses.”