There’s a certain cultural snobbery at play towards chaps from Newcastle with St. Georges Flag tattoos on their bellies who like to get drunk on beer and sing rude songs about the Germans.
Someone with the talent to effectively run an organisation that large can command that kind of salary in the private sector – so why are we paying our Ministers for Health the salary of a modestly successful country solicitor?
One of the problems with climate change policy as practiced, rather than as conceived, is that it amounts to a deliberate government attempt to distort the economy and the free market.
“This is what Government should be doing but is too afraid to do” may well prove a better message than simply “Watergrasshill has said no”.
Behind the scenes, a detailed and well-thought out plan is in place with the aim of making anti-immigration candidates a functional irrelevance
In a society where the state pays, your waistline suddenly becomes a matter of public policy.
A unified left, and a right that’s four cats in a bag, clawing at each other.
That the Irish Government would prioritise gender equality right up until the moment it risked denying a white middle aged Fianna Fáil man a big job is undeniably funny.
It is an attack on the past saying that what has been offers no guidance to where we should go.
The irony here is that almost anything you do to make her position more democratically accountable would also strengthen her power to set the agenda in Europe.
The single biggest reason, of course, for the electoral success of the Nazi party was the failure of other political groupings to address the problems of the German people.
Asked to choose between alienating Irish Times reporters and Labour Party TDs on one hand, and their own voters and activists on the other, Independent Ireland chose to ditch its own national chairwoman.