These campaigns often come down to who you side with, more than what you side with.
“The first person they prosecute will end up a martyr”.
Nuala O’Loan
“Sharp decline” in volunteers
Independent Senator Michael McDowell is a barrister, and a sharp cookie. We probably don’t agree on many things, but he’s always struck me as a man who respects civil liberties and who is unafraid to voice an opinion, even an unpopular one. Today he wrote to Minister Simon Harris, to outline a devastating flaw in […]
Media dominated by “activists.”
A shabby move
Credit where it is due, Michael McDowell has never feared being unpopular. Which is just as well, because his article for the Irish Times yesterday asks some questions that will be unpopular with the Government: Practically no one has articulated the reservation that it may not make sense for Ireland to be in the frontline […]
Senator Michael McDowell has said complying with climate change must not “become an absolute religion” and that Ireland cannot become “some kind of green equivalent of an Islamic republic in pursuit of some purist idea.” Speaking on the Climate Bill, the former Justice Minister also said that the desire of the Green Party to ensure […]
Dáil vote will happen “as soon as possible”.