Wallace and Daly - Please Read Mod Warning on OP

I still don't understand their motivation for their views on this, when you get right down to it is it just a hatred of all things American? Because we let the yanks refuel at Shannon Airport? That's a truly student union level of politics from two MEP's if so.

Easy, it's to be re-elected by the gombeen conspiracy theorist constituents that lap this sh*t up. No other reason. Able to sound relatively convincing as a secondary school debater? Welcome to Irish politics, job for life! It's absolutely poisonous and there are so many of them at it, in Ireland and abroad. They just want the paycheck at the end of it, I can guarantee most of them believe nothing that comes out of their own mouths. Spreading hatred, anger etc etc amongst an intellectually weak audience does not concern them one iota as long as they can make money out of it.

A tiny brain would actually believe that bullshit. You think the Russian government (and associates) didn't prepare for sanctions and just left themselves exposed? Seriously, you believe that?

On another point, can you name one time, ever, that sanctions have worked and not just harmed the poorest people of the sanctioned country?

Excellent. Hope they win, be nice to see some payback for some of the media agenda...

Perhaps the Ukrainian women being raped, or who were made to watch their kids being raped, by Russian invaders, should have been a bit more diplomatic?

Same as the citizens out on their bikes who were executed. The pensioners in nursing homes who were executed.

Maybe your man who got out of the car with his hands up but who was shot dead along with his wife maybe should have learned a little bit about the proper way to conduct peace talks?

Methinks you are mixing up the democratic process with legal rights. The Courts aren't runs as a democracy where randomers get to vote. You are thinking of Dancing with the Stars.

Morto for ya

In a democracy people have the right to hold the media to account and challenge alleged wrong doing through the courts by them. If you decide to 'think' try do so with some more clarity than you're demonstrating thus far.

Nope. Again, morto for ya.

Democracies - of which there are various forms - broadly consist of people voting representatives into political positions. Those representatives pass laws in their respective legislature. There is a three-way separation of powers in the Irish context - Courts, Executive and Legislature. One is not allowed to directly impinge upon the other, except, again in the Irish context, certain pre-defined scenarios.

The legislature could, should they wish, pass laws eliminating the tort of defamation (It was amended by statute a few years back btw) or even making it impossible to sue RTE for example. That does not mean you no longer have a democracy.

C'mon, this is basic stuff. I'd advise you to start educating yourself.