You might argue – might – that €350,000 is an amount of money that should be below the notice of Ministers, but you’d be making an argument that only an idiot should believe.
Repeated insistence.
Haven’t got a leg to stand on.
One of the problems Ireland and Irish leaders have is that if our problems could be solved by a few speeches at Beal na Bláth and some flowery rhetoric about our glorious republican dead, then this would be the wealthiest nation on earth.
This has long been central to Simon Harris’s style of politics.
On the one hand, I’ll miss the Olympics – sports like wall climbing are great, for a few days. On the other hand, you’d probably get sick of them if they went on any longer.
Something has shifted in recent years
Women across the country who feel unsafe or threatened by this situation transparently do not have the same access to the airwaves or the newsprint as Simon Harris does.
Taoiseach Simon Harris distances himself from a letter in which President Higgins gave the Iranian regime his “best wishes”, saying the letter is not government policy: “We have fundamental differences with Iran, and I’ll always continue to call out their human rights abuses.”
Taoiseach Simon Harris admits that “there is no need for any new law” to ensure public safety, and that currently it is already illegal to “incite hatred”, “incite violence” or “threaten physical violence” against people, whether online or in real life, with or without new laws.
An Instagram threat is the latest made against Mr Harris, after a bomb threat was made against his Co. Wicklow home six weeks ago.
For Harris, the fencing along the canals runs a real risk of becoming a real electoral monument to his lack of judgment.