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BEN SCALLAN: Amid ongoing protests in East Wall, here’s how the Irish government has orchestrated the current asylum chaos.
‘Nervous’ about legislation
“Putin wants these types of issues to arise in societies.”
The policy will have to change. Or, in time, the people will change the policymakers.
Once again, the voters just don’t seem to make any sense.
Sometimes, the need for comforting national stories outweighs the need to face the possibility that the story is wrong. We were all in it together.
BEN SCALLAN: The Irish government can’t be allowed to dodge responsibility for the destructive long-term effects of Covid policies. #gript
That’s the problem, in Ireland: If you could convince an Irish politician that burning the whole country down was the grown-up thing to do, and that it was in line with best international practice, they’d do it.
“Total mess”
BEN SCALLAN: A century after the War of Independence, Ireland now finds itself in the humiliating position of having to beg a European body to use our own generators and avoid freezing in the winter:
Pay day.
If she’s been a secret Fianna Fáiler for all these recent years, she’s done an extraordinary good job of hiding it.
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