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Who speaks for the people of Cork. Not ‘De Paper’ and certainly not Minister Micheal Martin.

So the PDs have gone back to first principles and have launched a massive tax cut strategy for the next election. Will it work? We at Les Gognards think it will, if only the French government would follow the PDs example.

Is it a sign of their growing desperation or is it a cynical ploy to use bogeymen from the past as a scare tactic? The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors at their annual conference in Killarney have taken to describing the proposed Garda Reserve Force as “auxiliaries” and decrying their introduction as “Thatcherite”.    [...]