The Gist: A Cold House for Voters
Unpopular Housing policy consumed the last government and saw the last Housing Minister leave politics entirely. Will we do it again?
Simon McGarr
A lawyer with McGarr Solicitors and director of Data Compliance Europe. Senior Policy Advisor for M3AAWG, guest lecturer with ERA in Trier & External Examiner for Irish Law Society on Data Protection.
The Gist: FF hits rock bottom
The Soldiers of Destiny's Survival Klaxon sounded as they hit 11% support, but in the same week they might have stumbled on a new way forward. This is the Gist.
The Gist: Autistic children and other enemies of the State
Prime Time Investigates broke a whistleblower's story on Friday night. The Dept of Health has been assembling secret dossiers on autistic children to use against them in court. This is the Gist
The Gist: FF, the Coalition's Biggest Small Party
Irish coalitions have one defining factor- the smaller party gets hammered. The Greens feared it, but chose to enter Government anyway. But what happens when a party just... seems small?
The Gist: Far-left Riots And Other Tall Tales
It's time to face up to our responsibility as an email and actually do an Irish news roundup. This is the Gist
The Gist: Demanding Attention
Australia is bringing in a law to mandate a transfer of income from Google and Facebook's new advertising duopoly back to the old Murdoch etc companies that used to hoard that gold. This is the Gist.
The Gist: Public Service Broadcasting, the red herring edition
RTÉ is running a survey, Australia is shaking down Google and Facebook on behalf of Rupert Murdoch and the Government is having a consultation. But first, this is the Gist.
The Gist: Picking Up The Pieces
The last few months have seen a lot of news. This week saw some of those old ghosts of stories past come around for a second pass. This is the Gist.
The Gist: Feedback Friday
Look, all the days are the same anyway and I like the name. This is the Gist.
The Gist: Musings for Airports
The Government doesn't want to bring in strict quarantine for international travellers. But it can't quite explain why. This is this the Gist.
The Gist: Seeing Double
The US has achieved a new President, the UK's shelves have started to look bare and the only music left is sea shanties. This is the Gist.
The Gist: Drop the Dead Donkey
Demonstrating an hitherto unknown ability to not stab itself in the eye needlessly, the Government went out onto the airwaves to let the word go out- The Commission Report was dead to them.