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There are a thousand other things about me that could have been written about. We’re all the same.
Waterford Rose Kirsten Mate Maher on winning the Rose of Tralee. She was the first African-Irish Rose to win the title.
Young people are the future. It is very important to prepare them for the future, preparing them today, in the present, but also rooted in the past: young people and grandparents.
Pope Francis released this message ahead his visit to Ireland.
Survivors are tired of meaningless apologies and expressions of solidarity that do not involve a clear call to action.
Survivors group One in Four’s executive director Maeve Lewis’s response to a letter released by Pope Francis on clerical sex abuse.
I didn’t even know if he was alive or not.
Lee Keum-seom (92) on seeeing her son for the first time since she and her infant daughter were separated from him and her husband as they fled North Korea.
The battle is going to be long and strenuous and needs to happen in places like this, because it won’t be won in the Dáil.
An activist marching with a group protesting Ireland’s housing crisis by occupying vacant properties.
We are going to enjoy this, have a sing song and many sing songs. We are delighted, it is two years of a gameplan being put into practice came out on the field, we are just over the moon.
All-Ireland winning captain, Limerick’s Declan Hannon, on his team’s victory last weekend.
I don’t ever go on holiday and last week was very hard. I don’t deserve to be scorned for taking a few minutes rest.
Independent TD Danny Healy-Rae hit out at Minister Shane Ross, who tweeted an picture of him asleep at the match.
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Save the world guys!, pay 2 euro for a litre of diesel\petrol in Ireland (a tiny country) while the US and other major powers\populations pay quarter of that…we’ve probably had about 20 years of these Carbon taxes and it doesn’t seems to be stopping anything :-(
@Spartacus Ireland: very true & Britain only accounts for 1% of global emissions but still inspires larger countries with green policies. I agree we play a small role but what’s the alternative in your view.
@Mjhint: We couldn’t incentivise?…it’s the same approach to obesity make the bad food more expensive and the good food even more expensive!?…I went to look into buying a basic electric car (38k?), I looked into a little wind generated in the house (thousands!!)…and if I’m taxed more and more I’ll never be able to afford these green technologies…make the good stuff cheaper is my suggestion, or is that just too difficult!?
@Ireland Abú: Yes, if this is an emergency we really need to incentivise very quickly…and if that means practically giving electric cars away or making the new technologies much more affordable then I’m in for sure!!…but I just don’t see the real and immediate benefit to these taxes (they’ve been with us a long time and still the globe gets hotter)…it seemed that CFC removal in aerosol in the eighties made the Ozone problem better (…or did it???)…all that’s happening right now is I’m just going broke and still trying to get to work and still trying to heat my home :-(
@Ireland Abú: get a job.
Barry Cowan looks towards the SF benches as he delivers the eunuchs-in-a-brothel line. I suppose if he is suggesting SF are the eunuchs then it follows that the Dail is a brothel.
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