BEN SCALLAN: “Ireland’s political and media establishment are now having to answer questions that have never come up before about border security, and justify policies which went unchallenged for years. And it turns out they’re not very good at it.”
Eaten alive.
It’s not good enough to frighten people into submission.
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Nor, for the record, has Government even made such a proposal.
In other words, you can move around freely, but only if it is in a good cause.
It is also a policy likely to change Garda behaviour, and the priorities of the Gardai as a police force.
“Incompetent government”
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