Media Minister Catherine Martin wants to bring RTÉ under the remit of the State’s auditor, the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG), as part of reforms at the broadcaster but the Coalition remains at odds over how to fund the station.
It’s the triumph of plastic politics over principles. Surely nobody who believes that what’s happening in Gaza is genocide could in good conscience go to the White House and party with the president overseeing it?
The author of a book cataloguing the disappearance of combatants and civilians in fighting in Ireland since the late 1700s claims government parties are “hypocritical” in attacking Sinn Féin over those who disappeared during the Troubles.
It is obvious that a party of Independents seems like a contradiction in terms, but then the three TDs already signed up for it wouldn’t be bothered about that if contradicting yourself in terms is the price you have to pay for a bit of “common sense” in the running of this country, they’ll happily take that hit.
The principal of a Dublin secondary school says she has been “inundated” this year with applications for exemptions from studying Irish in the Leaving Certificate and at other levels, and it is causing “unnecessary tension” between school principals and parents.