Everywhere you turn, progressivism holds sway. And yet, the youth are still upset.
With the departure of Richard Bruton, and his generation, we may well be entering an era of shorter political careers, more radical policy shifts, and more volatile elections.
you’d be foolish to bet heavily against our current crop of Ministers, minus maybe the Greens, getting another go at this.
in a more relaxed setting, politicians were obviously and perhaps understandably more open to expressing, and considering, a wider range of views.
“middle class people in Ireland don’t protest about money, they only protest about do-gooder stuff”
The first thing to understand about both the Seanad and the Dáil is that an absolutely enormous number of votes are formalities
the advent of the sexual revolution appears to have made young women relatively more dependent on the state
The case for the defence, as it were.
Winning is not necessarily the objective, first time out.
The age of adulthood in Ireland is eighteen. Up until that point, children are, and should remain, their parent’s problem.
Those people who roll their eyes and see an establishment that enforces rules and regulations selectively against its enemies are not imagining things.
No political party, after all, has ever won votes by criticising the popular people in the country.