revisit that topic at another time.
Would love to hear you give an outline of such a view. I don’t think anything like it is on the radar for the Irish population.
Thanks.
Would love to hear you give an outline of such a view. I don’t think anything like it is on the radar for the Irish population.
Thanks.
October 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
revisit that topic at another time.
Would love to hear you give an outline of such a view. I don’t think anything like it is on the radar for the Irish population.
Thanks.
Would love to hear you give an outline of such a view. I don’t think anything like it is on the radar for the Irish population.
Thanks.
I love this country and it’s played a pivotal role in shaping the adult I’ve become and maybe that makes me a bit British. But I also don’t feel in my bones that I am and I like that cross over, being one thing existing and marching to my own tune in a different place.
London don’t ever loose that.
London don’t ever loose that.
September 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I love this country and it’s played a pivotal role in shaping the adult I’ve become and maybe that makes me a bit British. But I also don’t feel in my bones that I am and I like that cross over, being one thing existing and marching to my own tune in a different place.
London don’t ever loose that.
London don’t ever loose that.
I’m not so sure those opinions are as revised as you suggest.
Plus, while it’s not statecraft, the fact remains the Bigot family of Margate read the tabloids and they vote.
This government is far too unpopular not to factor them into their thinking.
Plus, while it’s not statecraft, the fact remains the Bigot family of Margate read the tabloids and they vote.
This government is far too unpopular not to factor them into their thinking.
September 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I’m not so sure those opinions are as revised as you suggest.
Plus, while it’s not statecraft, the fact remains the Bigot family of Margate read the tabloids and they vote.
This government is far too unpopular not to factor them into their thinking.
Plus, while it’s not statecraft, the fact remains the Bigot family of Margate read the tabloids and they vote.
This government is far too unpopular not to factor them into their thinking.
Well that’ll hear no argument for me for sure.
But that sort of deepened cooperation with Europe/EU on a touchstone area such as defence, will generate some nightmare front pages of the Daily Mail to keep KS awake at night I’d say.
But that sort of deepened cooperation with Europe/EU on a touchstone area such as defence, will generate some nightmare front pages of the Daily Mail to keep KS awake at night I’d say.
September 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Well that’ll hear no argument for me for sure.
But that sort of deepened cooperation with Europe/EU on a touchstone area such as defence, will generate some nightmare front pages of the Daily Mail to keep KS awake at night I’d say.
But that sort of deepened cooperation with Europe/EU on a touchstone area such as defence, will generate some nightmare front pages of the Daily Mail to keep KS awake at night I’d say.
Aside from a full embrace of Europe/EU, I’d be interested to know what other hedge is actually available…
September 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Aside from a full embrace of Europe/EU, I’d be interested to know what other hedge is actually available…
That’s not to say I don’t feel it needs to be tackled - I do. But the process is going to be treacherous.
August 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
That’s not to say I don’t feel it needs to be tackled - I do. But the process is going to be treacherous.
I worry about how treaty change that requires any sort of referenda in countries such as Ireland, in an age of social media, populism and large scale disinformation, can be achieved smoothly or swiftly.
August 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I worry about how treaty change that requires any sort of referenda in countries such as Ireland, in an age of social media, populism and large scale disinformation, can be achieved smoothly or swiftly.
Me too and it’s just one more irrelevant post on top of all the others that are making me want to throw my phone and social media as an entity hard against the wall!
August 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Me too and it’s just one more irrelevant post on top of all the others that are making me want to throw my phone and social media as an entity hard against the wall!
Very revealing and menacing narrative right there.
July 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Very revealing and menacing narrative right there.
Just a small measure of how nuts the world is at the moment.
You may as well throw in the mock up of Pope Donald for good measure!
You may as well throw in the mock up of Pope Donald for good measure!
May 7, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Just a small measure of how nuts the world is at the moment.
You may as well throw in the mock up of Pope Donald for good measure!
You may as well throw in the mock up of Pope Donald for good measure!
London just today has dipped its toe in the water with an 18 month trial pedestrianisation of are strip between Camden Town station and the market. Hoping for it to go smoothly and go from trial to permanent.
London is taking baby steps, but definitely in the right direction I think.
London is taking baby steps, but definitely in the right direction I think.
May 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
London just today has dipped its toe in the water with an 18 month trial pedestrianisation of are strip between Camden Town station and the market. Hoping for it to go smoothly and go from trial to permanent.
London is taking baby steps, but definitely in the right direction I think.
London is taking baby steps, but definitely in the right direction I think.
I didn’t even know this existed. It has a certain ‘big red button’ vibe to it.
Feels like the kind of move that once you go there, you can’t really undo it and the damage it will do to relations.
Not saying it’s the wrong decision, but I understand the reluctance.
Feels like the kind of move that once you go there, you can’t really undo it and the damage it will do to relations.
Not saying it’s the wrong decision, but I understand the reluctance.
April 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I didn’t even know this existed. It has a certain ‘big red button’ vibe to it.
Feels like the kind of move that once you go there, you can’t really undo it and the damage it will do to relations.
Not saying it’s the wrong decision, but I understand the reluctance.
Feels like the kind of move that once you go there, you can’t really undo it and the damage it will do to relations.
Not saying it’s the wrong decision, but I understand the reluctance.
The toad has the same expression!
March 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM
The toad has the same expression!
Without a notable far right party, yes.
At least for the moment. The raw ingredients are there.
At least for the moment. The raw ingredients are there.
March 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Without a notable far right party, yes.
At least for the moment. The raw ingredients are there.
At least for the moment. The raw ingredients are there.
Who exactly is advising you to take that course?
March 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Who exactly is advising you to take that course?
Jesus that’s depressing.
That’s a fever that can’t be broken!
That’s a fever that can’t be broken!
March 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Jesus that’s depressing.
That’s a fever that can’t be broken!
That’s a fever that can’t be broken!
I have been thinking exactly the same thing and trying to pin point the moment in the distant past, when this was a very brief common talking point.
Good at business, shit at statecraft.
Totally different skill sets.
Good at business, shit at statecraft.
Totally different skill sets.
March 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I have been thinking exactly the same thing and trying to pin point the moment in the distant past, when this was a very brief common talking point.
Good at business, shit at statecraft.
Totally different skill sets.
Good at business, shit at statecraft.
Totally different skill sets.
I’m not very encouraged by Michelle O’Neal’s intervention in the north about recent defence related investment.
SF are going to have to check into a changing reality for Ireland and damn fast!
SF are going to have to check into a changing reality for Ireland and damn fast!
March 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I’m not very encouraged by Michelle O’Neal’s intervention in the north about recent defence related investment.
SF are going to have to check into a changing reality for Ireland and damn fast!
SF are going to have to check into a changing reality for Ireland and damn fast!
I can’t even conceive of the crisis such a scenario would create and how it would play out in Irish politics.
Obviously I hope all of this remains theoretical.
Obviously I hope all of this remains theoretical.
March 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I can’t even conceive of the crisis such a scenario would create and how it would play out in Irish politics.
Obviously I hope all of this remains theoretical.
Obviously I hope all of this remains theoretical.
That notion would absolutely shatter and transform the Irish mindset and its sense of itself.
Neutrality could not be expected to be respected in such circumstances regardless of how deftly the diplomacy of the moment would be handled.
Neutrality could not be expected to be respected in such circumstances regardless of how deftly the diplomacy of the moment would be handled.
March 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
That notion would absolutely shatter and transform the Irish mindset and its sense of itself.
Neutrality could not be expected to be respected in such circumstances regardless of how deftly the diplomacy of the moment would be handled.
Neutrality could not be expected to be respected in such circumstances regardless of how deftly the diplomacy of the moment would be handled.
lol that’s a generous description!
February 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
lol that’s a generous description!