We have a nationally accepted expectation that our politicians will act in the local interest first, and the national interest second.
The biggest open prize has already gone to Hugh O’Connell of the Sunday Times
Debt, manufacturing, immigration – and how to measure whether he gets anything done.
The world will not, and should not, miss him.
This being a democracy, we get what we vote for. In this case, it appears that the public voted for a Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael scramble for Ministries and Mercs.
How do you improve upon the most moral and good little country ever conceived of by mankind?
Lowry is now so popular there that he even has five county councillors, including his son, Micheál, on his side, so enabling voters to tell them apart: like fada, like son.
“You have to remember”, said the sage, “that these fuckers are all completely mad”.
He has influence not because of his platform, but because the things he is saying are resonant.
It’s in my nature, said the Scorpion, to the Frog
From being the least treed country in Europe, we are about to become the first country in the EU to be felling far more trees than we are planting
Wars, elections, relegations, and all that stuff.