Another massive red flag showing why the Triple Lock is an absurd piece of national policy and a complete abdication of our own foreign policy sovereignty.

Embarrassing enough as is that Ireland’s ability to deploy Defence forces abroad effectively requires approval from the UN Security Council—giving a veto to powers like US, Russia and China, but imagine then further exposing ourselves to depending on UN leadership that could end up in the hands of figures like Orbán?

Surely even the slow learners can see how ridiculous it is to tie our national policy to the whims of foreign authoritarians? It's long past time Ireland took full responsibility for its own foreign affairs.

Hoping someone particularly from a Tech / Finance background can shed some thoughts as to why we seen a global shift to the Right in recent years.

I'm not interested why the local header down the pub thinks there's too many Muslims who want to take over the country.

I'm more interested in why the big money, Silicone Valley & the Tech Bros, once the iconic home of internet era progressive optimism, have gradually done a 180 u turn and single handedly lined up to back Donald Trump in the Whitehouse and have their finger prints all over the Right across Europe - take for example Elon Musks open support for the AFD in Germany etc.

Is it just now the case that the Big money has swung to the Right?

Whether because their views have changed, your views have changed or you've lost love for your 'regular' political party?

A lot of the focus around this time of year is on our public spending. But are there problems that we can fix without extra public spending? Are we throwing money at problems instead of addressing their root causes? In this bonus, Keire sits down with Seán Keyes from Progress Ireland about what we could do to address the root causes of problems other than throw more money at them

https://www.seai.ie/data-and-insights/seai-statistics/key-publications/energy-in-ireland

Ryan Tubridy 'considering' move into politics with Fianna Fáil 'dream' for Galway seat https://www.connachttribune.ie/news/ryan-tubridy-politics-fianna-fail-9300333

We've tried a Seoige, now let's try a Tubridy.