Brexit the panto: bad acting, flimsy plot
We know that Christmas is a time for pantomimes and this year our nearest neighbour is mounting the greatest political panto of modern times in the guise of the Brexit decision at Westminster. As pantos go, the Westminster panto leaves the Gaiety, Olympia and Cork
O’Dea publishes new bill to remove EPA absolute immunity
Fianna Fáil TD for Limerick City, Willie O’Dea TD has today published a draft bill that would remove the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) absolute right to immunity. The Environmental Protection Agency (Amendment) Bill 2018 seeks to delete Section 15 of the 1992 EPA Act and
Begrudgers wrong to bemoan generosity of JP McManus
Ireland thrives on foreign investment, so why criticise a donation from one of our own. In his 1986 book, The Begrudgers’ Guide, the late, great Irish social critic and writer, Breandan O hEithir described begrudgers as the nation’s largest faction. Mercifully, their numbers have declined
FG’s spin on cutting poverty is an exercise in delusion
All five of the Fine Gael/Labour budgets actually widened the gap between rich and poor. In Leo, their new biography of An Taoiseach, the INM Group Deputy Political Editor, Philip Ryan, and Government adviser, Niall O’Connor, tell the story of the Taoiseach advising a Fine
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Healthy economy like ours can afford to hike welfare payouts
Protecting those people most in need should be a priority for politicians in a compassionate society, writes Willie O’Dea In an extraordinarily blase series of remarks after a pre-Budget forum with NGOs, the Minister for Social Protection dropped the strongest hints yet that she was