There is nothing the Green Party loves more than banning things or raising taxes. Indeed, I challenge anybody to name three Green initiatives in Government that do not directly involve banning something or increasing taxes on something. The latest – and by far the one with the greatest long-term potential damage to our democracy – [...]
One can easily understand – and empathise – with Lucinda Creighton’s frustration. Irish politics is not – to put it mildly – overburdened with either vision or talent, two things which even her harshest critics would have to concede she possesses.
That Fine Gael have allowed this degree of alienation to exist between the leadership [...]
It’s a historic day. It’s a wonderful day for people who’ve waited years, and in some cases decades, to have their relationships recognised. A yes vote on the final bill was the right thing to do, and it was also, happily, the conservative thing to do. There are too few opportunities as a legislator to [...]
It is one of the wonderful paradoxes of Irish political science that our political scientists are simultaneously obsessed with two things – increasing political engagement, and restoring trust in the political system. The idea being, you see, that if the latter is accomplished the former will follow. The problem is that the two goals are [...]