And the media’s hypocrisy on the same subject.
Balkan states.
“We are really increasing our investment in sport.”
The truth is that it was the politicians who didn’t understand – why they were having these votes, what the point of them was, or why people had the concerns that they did.
Slight-of-hand.
Irish liberals have spent the last half decade accusing everyone remotely to the right of Karl Marx of being a “Nazi-Fascist-Far-Right-Uber-Hitler.” But now that label has been levelled at the government and their lockdown, that comparison is too far and simply beyond the pale. The controversy came when Mattie McGrath TD of the Rural Independent […]
As most people have, by now, heard, one of the first legislative priorities for the new Government was to pass legislation enabling all three “super junior” ministers to be paid a bit more: The Dáil has passed laws to increase remuneration for a third ‘super junior’ minister who will now be entitled to an allowance […]
____________________________________________________________ Note from Editor: In recent days, Thomas Byrne TD has denied many of the allegations made in this piece, as reported here. However, given that Mr. Byrne is a member of the Government, and that these allegations are being levelled, credibly, by a long-term associate of his, and given that they go directly to […]
If you missed this delightful little story last week, then let me refresh your memories: After Barry Cowen suddenly, and four years after the event, found himself receiving media attention for his drink driving conviction, Minister for Europe Thomas Byrne went on Virgin Media and said how terrible it was that this had happened to […]
Last night, the Minister for European Affairs, Thomas Byrne, went on the Tonight Show on Virgin Media to defend Barry Cowen, the Minister for Agriculture, after the stories in recent days about Cowen’s drink driving offence four years ago, and absence of a full driving licence. While Byrne was on the programme, Ken McFadden, a […]