Paulie Doyle - The Ditch (Page 2)

Comment: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are attacking democracy

In September 2023 Michael Healy Rae was walking on Kildare Street when he encountered a small group of protesters.

Comment: The Occupied Territories Bill – and its misrepresentation – is a matter of sovereignty

Micheál Martin has repeatedly misrepresented the status of legislation that would ban trade with Israeli settlements deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Comment: Special advisers are just higher paid political correspondents

In February 2019 political correspondent Hugh O’Connell wrote a piece about a trend that had “raised concerns” of a “brain drain”: Fine Gael hiring half a dozen journalists as special advisers in 18 months – a "brain drain", wrote O'Connell.

Comment: Denying Gerry Adams compensation protects British national myths

In March 1972 state forces in the north of Ireland arrested and interned a young man in Long Kesh. There, alongside dozens of other prisoners – mostly Catholics and Irish republicans – he endured imprisonment without trial.

Comment: Regulating soup runs is about hiding homeless people – not helping them

A spectre is haunting businesses across Dublin city – the spectre of visible poverty.

Comment: Trust me, I’m a professional

Professionals who regard time in politics as just another CV entry should be considered with suspicion.

Comment: Why the Labour Party doesn’t understand Gerry Hutch

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, wrote Upton Sinclair, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. No surprise that the Labour Party leader doesn’t get why so many people in Dublin’s north inner city voted for a certain general election candidate.