Lest we forget.
Overall, the objective in healthcare should be to enact one or two small but popular and memorable policies, while leaving overall responsibility for healthcare in the hands of your coalition partners
“I’m not part of the accepted establishment for the media.”
€7.6 million shortfall for RTÉ
Up until relatively recently, a politician in Ireland could watch the 6 and 9 news on RTE and get a broadly reliable sense of the news the country was seeing, and how, therefore, to calibrate their message.
Primetime debate
And perhaps all candidates might be asked, in an ideal world, about what they think of RTE confining the debate to only eight candidates, ranging from the left to the far left.
What, exactly, is the point of the television licence, if RTE is not going to behave any differently from the commercial stations that don’t receive a penny in public funding?
“Why not?”
One candidate had a great night. Some others did not.
In highlighting the alleged diversity of organised crime, RTE isn’t telling you anything new about organised crime. It’s telling you what it thinks of you, the Irish people.
Not coincidentally, it must be suspected, the new Taoiseach has pledged to sort the issue of RTE funding before the next election