Politics
Paul Murphy: Micheál Martin once said the triple lock was worth protecting – now he should defend it
In response to the government’s plans to scrap the ‘triple lock’ and Tánaiste Micheál Martin’s recent opinion piece for the Business Post, Paul Murphy, the People Before Profit TD, writes that the mechanism should be maintained
On 15 February 2003, I was one of more than 100,000 people on the streets of Dublin opposing the impending invasion of Iraq.
We were part of the biggest anti-war movement the world has ever seen but the Iraq war waged by the US and its allies for oil and profit still cost the lives of millions.
The Fianna Fáil government of the time scandalously permitted Shannon Airport to be used by the US military ...
