Passive-aggressive behaviour is not the answer to Ireland’s problems

Sing along with the hero of French football

Them and us, but not just in sport. The sheer irrelevance of people like George Hook, Tom McGurk and Ryle Nugent.

Aosdána is a costly irrelevance and should be abolished.

IMF report on Ireland’s economy makes grim reading.

This briefing document was sent by the Catholic Communications Office to every Catholic diocese in advance of the publication of the report on child abuse. Pay special attention to the bullet points where bishops are advised how to react to the report. Clearly this is in case they wouldn’t have thought of these [...]

If the government continue to press ahead with the current NAMA proposal, it will bankrupt the country. When are they going to realise this?
There was no need to rescue the crooked banks. They could have been allowed to fail, and the government could have set up a clean, unencumbered bank. It would have hurt the [...]

The electronic voting machines are being scrapped because they don’t work.
They don’t do their job.
The results can’t be verified, the machines are vulnerable to hacking and the system doesn’t adequately reflect the single transferable vote system operated in this country.
Therefore the machines and software are not fit for purpose.
They don’t work.
So here’s my question.  Did [...]

The electronic voting machines are being scrapped because they don’t work.
They don’t do their job.
The results can’t be verified, the machines are vulnerable to hacking and the system doesn’t adequately reflect the single transferable vote system operated in this country.
Therefore the machines and software are not fit for purpose.
They don’t work.
So here’s my question.  Did [...]

I’ve said this already, but it’s worth repeating.
There was no need to rescue the Irish banks.  Instead of pumping billions into them, and even nationalising one of them, the government could have started up its own clean bank, unburdened by bad debts, and let the rest of them collapse.
Instead, it has poured billions of your [...]