Ireland Will Never Be Great Because It Disrespects and Hacks Its Constitution Unlike USA A Constitution is meant to be a Document that stands the test of ruling regimes that come and go and their contemporary policies, outlook and ambitions with and for the country during that period of time. Clearly allowing a sitting government to come in and hack away at the Constitution like the Dail has allowed over recent years can only result in the destruction for that very nation. Indeed it can be argued that Ireland no longer deserves to be nation because its founding document no longer represents what its founding fathers had intended, in all their wisdom...   [embed]https://youtu.be/nJH7CKDAPow[/embed] Tánaiste Simon Coveney was asked about the UN's Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration at a public meeting at the The Goat Bar & Grill in Dublin 14 on November the 27th, 2018. A member of the public asked the Táinaiste whether it w

Tánaiste Simon Coveney has confirmed that the Government is taking legal advice as to how sanctions may be used against striking nurses, including docking their pay. Mr Coveney said the Government does not want to be at odds with nurses but called on unions to live up to their part of the national pay agreement. “They are great people, doing very difficult work, often in very pressurised circumstances. We want to be working with nurses, with the INMO and with the psychiatric nurses to build a better health service that can attract many young people into this profession,” he said. “What the Government has said is that we are taking legal advice in regard to the options that are available to us, consistent with the pay agreement that everybody signed up to with their eyes open," he told the Dáil. There is a responsibility on the Government to deliver on that, and that involves hundreds of millions of euro of extra pay across the public sector. There is also a