He really is a big girl’s blouse. Do you think he has ever changed a tyre?

One reason is that the solutions are often more unpopular than the problems. We are the country that used to kidnap people and make them visit Shannon against their will.

Always remember a Turkish chap in Anatolia being asked why he voted for Erdogan. He pointed at the new road, the new clinic where his mother got her free healthcare, and the new school his niece went to.
Competent delivery can cover a multitude of sins. Just ask Lowry/Healy-Rae voters.

It’s the minister calling on someone else to do something that I love about Irish politics.

And moreso the sort of people who will tell you “Hell” is a swear word.

I hope there is some junior office patriot in the CDC who has kept a copy of the proper website to be reactivated on day one of a serious president.

It’s like we’ve created a new constitutional position of Office of the National Pain In The Arse.

He wants to ban American Jews from holding Israeli passports?

It’s like those people who regard ownership of a mobile phone as being some sort of sign of wealth.

We could try privatize the collection: let Josef O’Shea and others identify and seize properties with uncollected taxes, develop and sell off, paying the tax owed and putting property back into circulation. The nominal initial value can be deducted from the sale and put into escrow?

What’s that mafia phrase? Wetting my beak?

I’m never quite sure why so many of these guys actually want to attend media events with him. There is always a high probability of you being embarrassed or humiliated in public.

Yeah but those homes will still be rented at a (high) market rate. A flooding of extra housing onto the market would drive down prices but primarily Irish social forces will stop that.

You know I’m not sure we’re even that calculated. I genuinely think that inertia as an ideology is our big problem: that most pols recognize that most Irish voters are suspicious of any new housing near them and therefore the politically safest thing to do is nothing.