The rural urban divide showing itself in responses to the fuel protests. Comfortable Dubliners don’t seem to have any understanding of how much fuel costs impact in rural Ireland.
It’s weird.. most of us are no more than a generation or two away from feeding chickens and calves.
We've learned more about James Geoghegan and John Dallon in the past 6 hours than we know about Riad Bouchaker after 2 and a half years. What does that tell you?
A new cohort of Irish people - farmers and hauliers - are finding out what the people of Newtownmountkennedy, Coolock and Clonmel found out two years ago...
The days of the country guard are gone. The modern garda is not your friend. They are the enforcement arm of the state and they will do it with fervour.
They will do very little when you need them on a Saturday night after an assault outside a chip shop, or when travellers come to strip the gutters off your house or when drug dealers set your vehicles on fire to intimidate you into settling a family member's drug debt.
But they will beat the sh*t out of you when you go against the authoritarian actions of the state.
Important to internalise.
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Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are making a complete shambles of things. The decision to exclude people from talks yesterday was disrespectful and arrogant. They need to pick up the phone, engage with protesters and focus on resolving the crisis by bringing fuel prices down quickly. No half measures.
Flying the Irish flag in Ireland has apparently become "controversial"
Think about that,
Flying your own flag, in your own country has become "controversial" or "far right"
What kind of Government is ashamed of its own flag?
There you have it. Connolly wants to "expand the role" of the presidency, drawing on Higgins as an example. This crank will do a lot of damage if elected.