What’s your most controversial opinion? **Read OP** **Mod Note in Post #3372**

Bertie remains the greatest politician we have produced in my lifetime. Despite his flaws, he understood the people and he could relate to them.

I don't think fundamentally he is a greedy man or an egomaniac, like Haughey was.

I think history will be relatively kind to Bertie.

I feel the narrative around the downfall of FF during the late 00s will be more so people in the country lost the run of themselves during the Celtic Tiger rather than FF drove us to despair.

If we reduced our carbon footprint in Ireland to nil - basically going back to a 1700s lifestyle. No electricity, no cars etc. It would not make an ounce of difference re global warming.

Until the green option becomes cheaper (worldwide) we are fighting a losing battle.

We buy nuclear energy as it is. We should now be looking at our own nuclear solutions with green energy. Our energy options/problems could be solved in a relatively short time frame if we had the appetite. Instead we'll have people cutting turf as two fingers to the government.

The government knew the risks and they were more than happy to push it along. And bertie telling people who were warning to commit suicide will always stick in my mind. What kind of person says that?

Yer man Rory Sutherland talks about how nuclear energy made a terrible mistake in the name. You could invest in Natural Gas, Clean Coal or Nuclear energy, which is the most environmentally friendly of the three but is named after a bomb.

….maybe serious nuclear accidents actually caused a significant amount of fears over the technology!

I can't remember the precise figures but I believe it's along the lines of, in the next hour more people will die from fossil fuel emissions than have ever died from nuclear power related incidents.

^ pleased that a court has legally recognised gas been bloody obvious since the beginning of time.

A woman is a woman.

I accept that there are some who aren't happy in their biological body and want to appear to the world differently but trying to wipe out biological women in pursuit of their wishes is pathetic and unacceptable.

Why we should be forced to share spaces only open to women with a man dressed/saying they are a woman is completely unacceptable.

^yep, I agree with the above posts. It was a massive ruling with ramifications that will stretch far and wide.

Crystal clear unanimous ruling by the UK Supreme court who clarified (the UK 2010 equalities act) which had been misinterpreted & misinterpreted over the years. Just goes to show how a "controversial opinion" one day may not be a controversial opinion the next day.

Lol. How are they abusing their power?

Why not all cars then? Limiters fitted to every car to max 120kph; I see plenty abusing the speed limits on all types of roads.

It is actually bizarre that cars are allowed to be sold that are capable of driving at speeds far beyond the law of the land.