General Irish politics discussion thread

They have been warned time and time again that they are spending unsustainable reciepts and they refuse to listen. Year after year massive unbudgeted increases in public spending to various departments.

As noted by IFAC they now say the state's underlying deficit when you remove the froth will balloon to €14bn next year.

This is really dangerous. The figures now are worse than 2008. This time the bubble is Corporation tax.

For too many reasons to list, this statement is nonsense.

As James Geoghegan said to Rose Conway-Walsh on radio at the weekend, when she said "if you strip out Corporation Tax"…

"Why would you strip out Corporation Tax? Do you want to strip out Income Tax? Do you want to strip out Excise? Do you want to strip out VAT?"

And he's right. You are, and she was, comparing apples with power drills.

Even the IFAC lad himself said this morning that not all Corporation Tax is a windfall, that the FDI business outlook is stable thanks to the tariff question being largely put to bed and the OECD led harmonisation to 15% has done nothing to deter activity or investment, and the exchequer will actually benefit on a permanent basis from it.

The A & E at that hospital seems to be a total disaster zone. Reports of it being constantly overcrowded and too few staff on duty. I remember reading that quite a few staff members resigned in the wake of that other poor teenage girl dying of sepsis in recent times. Seems to be a major issue of bad management of the place, alongside the overcrowding. Even more alarmingly, nothing seems to have changed and these appalling incidents keep on happening.

I don't think any health minister has killed children. Lets not lose the run of ourselves

Saw this as a headline somewhere. Assumed the park was named after a current Israeli politician as that would be the only logical reason to bring this up.

Baffling move by councillors. Surprised it was a Labour councillor who brought this forward too...

I don't think they've been spooked. They're giving sane and justifiable feedback as soon as they heard about it.

Once again you get the wrong end of the stick.

Irish people are not looking to have that park or any other judenfrei.

We do however want it to be zionist free.

It seems that you are confusing the two words. Norman Finkelstein for instance is a jew - but he is not a zionist. See how easy that was?

Who is "we"?

The Journal has a poll going and it says otherwise.

There is a thin line between supporting Palestinians and veering in to just plain bigotry.

https://www.thejournal.ie/herzog-park-rathgar-poll-6889978-Dec2025/?utm_source=shortlink

Student Union politics isn't going to help a single Palestinian.

Similar stuff happening when Chaim Herzog was around.

I just read RBB comments defending him and his party not standing and applauding when president Zelensky spoke to the Dail. Jesus Christ while I have issues to varying degrees with all political parties in Dáil Éireann but I’m never really embarrassed by any of them. But PBP would want to grow up and act like adults.

The William Butler Years did not even have jammers on board. They didnt fire their cannon at the drones because they were concerned they could hit civil aircraft.