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.
“The world has changed since President Biden’s victory in 2020.”
Broken contract.
“Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, sticking together to hold out what the centre perceives as the fringes.”
“Today is about looking forward.”
Taoiseach “was well aware”