Follow the science?
Angered women’s groups
This is the question on which his record at the helm of the state finances must be judged.
A panicked political class is running out of alternative ideas, and when in doubt, they go back to what’s worked for them before.
Irish politicians talk all they want about democratic principles. But what do people’s votes really mean if leaders don’t keep their political promises? Ben Scallan comments.
At the end of the year, whoever leads Fine Gael is set to take over as Taoiseach from Micheál Martin as a condition of the government coalition. Some would naturally assume that this means we’ll see a return of Tánaiste Leo Varadkar as Taoiseach, as he is obviously the current leader of Fine Gael. Varadkar […]
A body representing Irish businesses has claimed that many Irish Leaving Cert graduates are unable to perform “simple tasks,” and cannot write a paragraph of text without making significant grammar and spelling errors. The remarks were made this week by the Irish Small and Medium Enterprise Association (ISME) while speaking to the Oireachtas Education Committee […]
Danger to women
This is not a strategy to fix the problem. It is a strategy to blame others for the problem.
Harris has now denied this accusation on the record of the Dáil. The burden is on Carthy to prove him guilty. And that burden has not, as yet, been met: Simon Harris says he is considering a complaint to the Dáil procedures committee over Matt Carthy’s “misuse of Dáil privilege” — Hugh O'Connell (@oconnellhugh) September […]
In 2019, Sinn Fein tabled a Motion of No Confidence in the then Minister for Health, Simon Harris. Ahead of the Dáil debate and with cringe inducing bravado, Harris took to Twitter to challenge his political opponents. “Bring it on” he tweeted. Well, bring it on they did, and it wasn’t all empty guff and political opportunism […]
Every time we report one of these polls, the comments on Facebook and Twitter and other social media platforms are the same: “fake poll”, or “they didn’t poll me”, or words to that effect. And that is understandable, nobody likes to be in the minority, or feel the country is against them. Least of all, […]