Go and have a look at what Trócaire does, these days, and you won’t find a catholic charity, but a cookie cutter left wing lobby group.
The political parties in the state barely compete with each other at all on issues that matter to the voters but compete with the utmost intensity on the issues that matter to an elitist group of NGOs and lobby groups.
#defundNWCI
Over the last decade, Fine Gael has bent the knee to these people daily, on almost every issue.
In any arrangement where a man is buying sex from a woman who would not otherwise have sex with him, the man is de facto the one with power.
It is also a policy likely to change Garda behaviour, and the priorities of the Gardai as a police force.
There is no group, for example, pointing out to Government and the media that the Carbon tax hits the poor disproportionately.
Amidst a crime crisis, an electricity crisis, the likely loss of our keystone corporation tax rate, the aftermath of the longest lockdown in the western world, record waiting lists, record homelessness, and record house prices, it really comforts the soul to know that Ireland’s political leaders are focused on the issues that matter to each and every one of us:
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The TV series “Normal People” portrayed coming-of-age in modern Ireland as adventurous and liberating. But Woke “diversity” policies have made real-life “normal” people victims of a repressive “social justice” culture in which the worst thing anyone can be is white, indigenous Irish, heterosexual, fully aware of one’s own gender, able-bodied, of sound mind and not […]
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