It is also a policy likely to change Garda behaviour, and the priorities of the Gardai as a police force.
Reaction on social media hilarious
Unfair suggestion
Quinton De Kock is the one losing here. He is much closer to Colin Kaepernick than any of the sheep who troop out onto pitches to kneel down and demonstrate their compliance, every single week.
in Ireland, opposition parties and the media live in mortal fear of being accused of “playing the race card”. Merely expressing scepticism of any policy in relation to immigration runs the very real risk of being called a racist.
The plebs who voted by a 80% majority are racist and awful, and the political elite are therefore working to overturn their wishes.
Like most truly terrible ideas, the notion that companies, state agencies, and other institutions should proactively discriminate in favour of people from minority backgrounds and races is built on a foundation of good intentions. It is important, after all, to recognise that most people, most of the time, are trying to do good things, and […]
The BBC has caused controversy by banning white people from applying for a trainee job working for some of its popular programmes – including Springwatch and The One Show. The one-year trainee production management assistant role with the BBC’s Science Unit in Glasgow is ‘only open to black, Asian and ethnically diverse candidates’. According to the […]
If you happen to have been reading, oh, literally any other Irish media outlet, except perhaps the Sunday Times, over the last week, you will have encountered one perspective, and one only, on the question of footballers “taking the knee” before the kick-off of their European Championship matches. It is, you have been endlessly told, […]
Right, hands up, this opening paragraph is going to make a lazy, not particularly insightful point. In this case, however, there are not many other obvious points to make, so here goes: Imagine somebody wrote this in an academic paper about Black People: Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has—a malignant, […]
The great paradox of modern Ireland is that the more power Irish liberals acquire, the more illiberal they become. We had, yesterday, a collection of taxpayer funded NGO’s in to visit the Oireachtas committee on Housing and Local Government, which is responsible for how Ireland runs its elections, amongst other things. Kitty Holland picks up […]
“Our players wanted to do it. It’s important.”