Paul Murphy: “I hope that some backbenchers defy the whip and vote in line with 77% of the public who want to see hare coursing…”

There should be no red carpet for US President Donald Trump during his visit to Ireland later this month.

In a worst-case scenario, the whole thing might need to be demolished and rebuilt again.

We need to break from our position of subservience to US empire. We need to stop them using our airports and we shouldn't be rolling out the red carpet for them.

They have been the only ones to suffer any real consequences up to this point.