lt’s Alright to Be a “Yes, but…” but Please Be a “YES” About 12 years ago, as part of my work as a translator, a Finnish marriage certificate came across my desk. With typical Scandinavian clarity, the certificate presented a series of boxes that were either ticked or unticked, one of which was “same-sex registered…
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys, or so goes the argument. Whether it’s true or not, the perks Monaghan county councillors feel they deserve are, well… (sorry for this)… bananas. Last year, Monaghan councillors claimed €239,000 in allowances and expenses on top of their basic salary. The pay for being a county councillor is…
Many people have become frustrated and tired with politics in Ireland. It seems that, no matter who we put into government, the way they do things never changes. Every party contains good, able people, but they often get bogged down in the system and so we continue from year to year, without fixing our broken politics.…
Paul McPhillips 