It behooves me, as a writer about politics and society, to try to analyse and make sense of these numbers for you, the public. But I’ll be honest: Buggered if I know what’s going on.
In other words, if politicians really desired to alleviate the cost of commuting, they have a legion of possible avenues to do it.
None of this is a matter of race. It is as insane to import thousands of dark-skinned young men to live in abandoned office blocks as it would be to import thousands of light skinned young men to live in abandoned office blocks
It was a speech for the hardcore Fine Gaeler, the kind of person who looks at the party’s record in Government and wonders why the rest of us seem so bloody lacking in gratitude.
Once again, the voters just don’t seem to make any sense.
The names you have read in relation to this story in whatsapp groups and on facebook pages are, by definition, almost certainly wrong.
That’s the problem, in Ireland: If you could convince an Irish politician that burning the whole country down was the grown-up thing to do, and that it was in line with best international practice, they’d do it.
On some of the issues where the Government is most vulnerable – energy prices, refugees, crime, and so on – the opposition has no punch to throw.
You’ll never beat the Irish establishment if your starting point is that you’re better and more patriotic than they are.
Paul Murphy, celebrating, as well he might.
Nobody – and I do mean nobody – on planet earth exerted more pressure on the vaccine companies to compress their testing schedules and rush the vaccines to market, more than Donald Trump
If it’s not far right to consider a migration pause today, then it never was.