Eoin Ó Broin of Sinn Féin has said being loudly accused by a man at a bus stop in Clondalkin of being a “traitor”, was “water off a duck’s back” for him. He was just worried that the video of the incident, which was posted on X, might discourage people from minority communities in particular from going into politics.
Simon Harris’s pledge to the parents of Ireland that he would get their grown-up offspring “out of the box room” may have been a crowd-pleaser, but Fine Gael is not the only party promising to send round the packing crates.
Why is Simon Harris so silent on housing? Elected as leader of Fine Gael two weeks ago today, he has said nothing on the biggest social crisis facing people in every county across the State.
Simon Harris has said the Government will build 250,000 houses over the next five years in a promise widely at odds with the Coalition’s current housing targets.