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.
That the President is the sort of fellow who would imagine that the Mossad is out to get him is, on one level, not remotely surprising.
It lasted 8 years
Simply put, Israel cannot – as its current Government seems to believe – solve every problem with force.
There is now a very real prospect of a hot war between Hezbollah and Israel, involving ground troops. What is the Irish mission, in that context?
Hamas did not commit the October 7 massacres because of some frustration over the lack of Palestinian statehood.
The latest development in hostilities that have been ongoing since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
It is very hard to overstate what a lucky country Ireland is in geographic political terms
Israeli anger towards Ireland, however legitimate the Israelis might feel it is, is not helpfully expressed by an unfair and needlessly aggressive condemnation of Harris that is substantially untrue.
It’s another instance of our leaders passively admitting something in their actions that they cannot say with their words: That Ireland’s stance on Gaza – whether it is morally correct or incorrect – is politically toxic in the United States,
If you view the war not as a conflict between rational actors, but a conflict between a rational state and a death cult, then it all begins to make more sense
“It’s very important.”