W e are living in strange times. Angry times. It’s a weird period in our history where it often feels as if all the old rules of civilised behaviour and reasonable engagement have been discarded and the mob has now decided that it has the right to do whatever it wants and woe betide anyone who disagrees with it, its actions or behaviour.
Ah, the thud of campaign leaflets hitting the welcome mat. It’s election season again, that time when our aspiring politicians grace us with their presence. And by presence, I mean a glossy flyer that promises the moon on a stick.
On Thursday evening, protesters descended on the home of Roderic O’Gorman, even going so far as to hang a banner on his gate declaring: “Minister O’Gorman hates children.”
A member of the far right involved in a protest outside Roderic O’Gorman’s house is also suspected of key involvement in the Dublin riots, including the burning of a garda squad car, the Sunday Independent can reveal.
In his first speech as leader of Fine Gael, Simon Harris talked of a “firmer” migration system and having “pride again in our capital” – the test of that will be whether he lets the huge asylum-seeker tent encampment on Lower Mount Street continue any longer.