A new weekly feature looking at the stories – big and small – we didn’t get to.
In a referendum campaign, the side that tells the better story usually wins.
“The anti-GAA crowd are livid”: MATT TREACY looks at who is complaining about JP McManus’s extraordinary generosity to GAA clubs.
The author is a Northern Irish businessman, based in South County Dublin. In view of his location, the Editor has chosen to withhold his name for his own safety.
Annoyance or irritation with Rugby culture should not stop us from marvelling at the successes of the team
This, I’m afraid, is what most organisations, and the country, would look like in a United Ireland. And yet for some reason, the most devoted nationalists are very upset by it.
It would be fascinating to see figures overlaying strong identification with the Irish Rugby Team with broad satisfaction about the state of the nation.
Irish Media Minister Catherine Martin has said that it would be the job of the government’s new Electoral Commission to “monitor” what communications are “appropriate” during Irish elections, when asked about billionaire Elon Musk’s comments to her last week. Last Friday, Gript asked Martin about new EU regulations around so-called “misinformation,” and the potential impact […]
One might be forgiven for thinking that his concerns, sending that tweet, were not to express outrage on behalf of Ireland’s unmarried mothers, but to use them as a sort of meat shield for his own interests.
They absolutely adore issues of public concern that have basically nothing to do with their own areas of responsibility.
State interference
The Horse Racing industry also needs to come to terms with something: Just saying “it’s tradition” over and over won’t cut it.