With luck, we’ll have a new drainage scheme for Dublin in just 25 years. Welcome to modern Ireland
The calamity of the Planning and Development Act 2024 is becoming clearer by the day. Most people are not aware that the Bill for the Act was rushed through the Houses of the Oireachtas using guillotine motions to prevent any real consideration of the measure as a whole or in detail. Many amendments were tendered […]
Trump shames America and Americans with his pathetic pandering to dictators
Back in 2017, at this time of year, Donald Trump issued a warning to North Korean despot Kim Jong-un, whom he dubbed “little rocket man”. He reacted to Kim’s test-firing of a missile towards Japan with extensive joint US-South Korea military exercises and stated that talking to Pyongyang was “not the answer”. US forces were […]
Trump’s deal-making to end the Ukraine war is a sick charade
Let’s be brutally honest about recent events. Donald Trump is – and is behaving like – an unpredictable, selfish ignoramus, constantly mollycoddled by a group of sycophants – whether domestic or international – to prevent him from crashing the car. To recap, he pronounced solemnly that unless there was an immediate ceasefire Putin’s Russia would […]
Israeli hostages not a priority for ministers planning Gaza takeover
Those of us who uphold the UN charter and support the right of Israel, a sovereign UN member state, to exist within its internationally recognised lawful boundaries and to defend that sovereignty – and that is the position of the great, great majority both of Irish and European citizens – are equally entitled to call […]
Donald Trump’s presidency represents a reversal of American orthodoxy on trade
We are now one-eighth of the way through US president Donald Trump’s second term. For some, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Nobody knows what the short-, medium- or long-term effects of his tariff wars will be. Is the United States on the cusp of a golden age, as he claimed on the day of […]
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 […]