Giving the power to shape the country’s future to people who do not have to live in that future would not only be grossly unfair, but a potentially catastrophic error.
Far down the ballot paper, it’s more about keeping people out than it is voting people in.
“It’s a good idea.”
The first thing to understand about both the Seanad and the Dáil is that an absolutely enormous number of votes are formalities
Why bother?
Machiavellian.
The age of adulthood in Ireland is eighteen. Up until that point, children are, and should remain, their parent’s problem.
To the extent that there are differences, they are differences of tone, not of approach.
As we noted last week on Gript, the result of the Dublin Bay South bye-election, where the media set the posh against the privileged, was never going to be much of a surprise. The constituency is one of the wealthiest areas in the country. As far as gated houses and disposable incomes are concerned, DBS is not so […]
The great paradox of modern Ireland is that the more power Irish liberals acquire, the more illiberal they become. We had, yesterday, a collection of taxpayer funded NGO’s in to visit the Oireachtas committee on Housing and Local Government, which is responsible for how Ireland runs its elections, amongst other things. Kitty Holland picks up […]
A Donegal man aroused anger online after he claimed to have destroyed his grandmother’s polling card and hid her walking frame to prevent her from voting for her preferred candidate. My granny was going to vote for Peter Casey or that other racist guy so I ripped up her polling card and hid her walking […]