EU’s weakness shows up in migration as well as tariffs
It remains to be seen whether the so-called deal on tariffs announced on Sunday between the United States and European Union, imposing a general 15 per cent tariff on nearly all EU member states’ exports to the US, is a serious economic setback for the bloc in general or the Republic in particular. The official – and […]
You might think a planning application for a windfarm is good news. You’d be wrong
A recent planning application to An Coimisúin Pleanála has been made by a limited liability company called Gort Windfarms Limited (GWL). It concerns a windfarm on Slieve Aughty in rural County Galway with 70 major wind turbines with generating capacity to power 30,000 homes. You might think that was good news, bearing in mind that we […]
Many people won’t decide how to vote in a Border poll until they see what’s on offer
On July 12th, the BBC aired an hour-long segment on the main Orange marches held across Northern Ireland and included a piece on the earlier march in less-clement weather at Rossnowlagh, Co Donegal. Marches this year in glorious weather attracted record numbers of participants and onlookers compared with recent years. Colourful, musical and sometimes even flamboyant, there were more than […]
Israeli-American plan seems intended to kill off any hope of a two-state solution by deporting population of Gaza
Some American Christian fundamentalists fervently believe and even hope that we are living in End Times and that the second coming of Jesus is nearly upon us and will come in the context of the coming battle of Armageddon, believed to be located at Meggido. All this was recently described in a TV documentary entitled […]
Folly of abolishing bedsits only to promote co-living is now becoming clear
A letter published in this newspaper yesterday reminded me of the decision, made by the then-housing department in 2009, to ban bedsits with effect from 2013. The letter, from Enid O’Dowd, outlined a decision of a private landlord to sell a house he owns in Rathgar, south Dublin. This house has, up to now, been let in four […]
The idea that the Kremlin has kompromat on Trump seems increasingly plausible
Whether or not the Islamic Republic of Iran politically implodes in the aftermath of the American-Israeli aerial onslaught, and regardless of whether there is an uneasy truce or phoney war between the participants, a far greater issue confronts the Continent of Europe – namely what will become of Putin’s ongoing war against a sovereign UN […]