I think a lot of people who call themselves libertarians are actually authoritarians - they want maximum personal liberty for themselves, and see the best way to achieving that is to deny personal li… (View Post)

The latest poll is close enough that FF and FG will agree to do the rotating Taoiseach again. There had been a few polls earlier where it looked like FG would have done well enough to bring that into… (View Post)

The other thing is that they work the area very hard. They go to a huge number of funerals, which are a big deal in rural Ireland where people know each other so much, can trace distant family relati… (View Post)

Fintan O'Toole calls it "clientilism". They're the big guys in the local area who can get things done. So, the local hospitals don't have capacity for cataract operations and the waiting li… (View Post)

It's a random number of trees at times and places not possible to predict with accuracy in advance. The training overhead seems to be quite high, but relying on contractors entails a long wait becaus… (View Post)