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But It’s OUR Corruption
This is a good one. Michael Healy-Rae, the son of one of our finer politicians, won a ‘reality’ TV show thanks to a public phone-in vote. Several thousand of these calls, it turned out, came from his...
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Break The Dress Code
Less shirt, more pink We voted for change. All we’re going to get is a change of clothes. I will never support any TD who votes to enforce a dress code in the Dáil. A silly thing to be upset about? It...
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Vatican City Limits
Ideally, it should be in a hollowed-put volcano What I hate about the Vatican is their holier-than-thou attitude. It may not pretend that it’s above error, but it continuously insists, to us and to...
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No On Both Referendums
"Well Connected" - Photo Irish Independent Turnout is low. Too low. Late in the day as it is, I want to urge people to get out and reject both referendums. There is a lot of confusion about them, I do...
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How Abject Can We Get?
What is the opposite of social welfare? A Dáil committee debate; someone yet again makes the point that if we selectively burn lenders now, they will remember it if we ever want to borrow again. The...
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Bent
Paragraph from the Mahon Tribunal findings, image courtesy Simon Carswell Fifty years and God knows how much money to reach a conclusion that – let’s face it – we already knew. Madness? No, worth every...
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Fornication Once Again
Not a term you hear much these days, fornication. For those of you without the benefit of a Catholic education, fornication is the sin of having sex with someone who isn’t your spouse, a puzzling...
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Three Billion In Change
All This Needs Is a Soundtrack By Loituma Are we not the sharpest-dressed protesters you have ever seen? We’re at the launch of a new commemorative coin – face value, €15 – an event we found more than...
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Save The Senate
Logo of the Oireachtas of Ireland (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Let’s not try to avoid the obvious here. The Seanad is an embarrassment. It’s astonishingly, intrinsically and indeed deliberately...
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