Is it possible that we might be offered some choices, rather than the chorus of neoliberal-left yes men we're used to?

Am I the only person who is more than a little surprised at a Tánaiste contradicting a Minister for Justice's report to the Oireachtas?

That's 'thundering disgrace' territory, and would be a major crisis, if we or perhaps just the media had any standards left.

Where might they be?

Sean Clancy #Varadkar has guards with him 24/7. Where were they? Did they get the car registration? Did they set an example? And if not, why? Again this video stinks of being set up. There is nothing to prove it is real but certainly something to be gained by Government from the narrative.

The Irish government might start the conversation about unity a lot quicker now,this could be the straw that breaks the camels back!!

The real reason for the decline in unionism; they keep defining each other out.

That pleasant dispensation where the UK and the Republic got on, and talked guff about 'the long history of friendship between these islands' is now over.
Apologies to those who made a good living out of it, but it is what it is.
Back to De Valera's way... that worked.

Conor McDonough OP ⚓️ In the Irish case, discourse is too strong a word, IMO.
Most of the time, you're expected to believe and adopt the new orthodoxy with little or no rational explanation for the change or the consequences of the change

Or you'll never get the house...

Schrodinger's gerontocats...

Are you kiddin' me?

29 Apr 1559: the Privy Council publicly forbids 'Strangwyshe the Rover' or Henry Strangeways, #pirate , from putting to sea in warlike state #otd as #Spain had protested he intended to target Madeira (NPG)

More Jaws music...

29 Apr 1624: John Roche of New Ross is appointed bishop of his native diocese of Ferns #otd He once said to Luke Wadding that he sometimes felt he'd prefer to be a novice in St Isidore's #Rome than go through all the difficulty of being a Catholic bishop in #Ireland

Unless you think Helen McEntee TD is lying about what the Department told her (and I doubt she would do that) then 80% it is. You can ignore the interest groups' squeakings. Not only do they have skin in the game, but they don't have the overall picture, and the Department do.

So... the FFGG coalition. What do people think? How long more will it last?

Whatever Leo Varadkar's personal reasons for resigning were, you cannot fault his timing...

Oh. Guess what the CTA (Common Travel Agreement) between Ireland and Britain says...

You could be forgiven for thinking that All Things Bright and Beautiful is a quintessential English hymn. It was, however, written (the words at least) by the Irish hymnwriter Cecil Frances Alexander who was born at 25 Eccles Street, Dublin in April 1818. The hymn itself, which

It's extremely unlikely that unionists would even be notified.

They weren't last time, after all. 🙂