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Michael Healy-Rae’s resignation is less about one man and more about a system that rewards noise over responsibility.

Something seems to have changed in the past ten days. If it brings more scrutiny to how successive governments have continued to unthinkingly throw taxpayers’ money at problems, it will be for the best.

This is a case of the State using the country’s balance sheet to insulate domestic businesses from international shocks — using international money. This model, as we know, is unsustainable.

The overlap between fuel-price and anti-immigrant protest organisers goes hand-in-hand with their disregard for the hurt they cause to small businesses and their staff.

The movement started by Michael Gove’s public call to ditch the experts has ended with Donald Trump stuck at the Strait of Hormuz. The consequences are, at last, sinking in.

Friendly countries in Europe, Asia and the Middle East are frustrated with President Trump but also reliant on the U.S. for their security, writes Yaroslav Trofimov, The Wall Street Journal.

After last week's investigation by The Currency into the controversy surrounding Mayor John Moran, Monday's meeting of the troubled Limerick City and County Council was hoped to press the reset button. Instead, the situation became even more inflamed.

Slovenian officials blame the secretive Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate Sunday’s vote, write Drew Hinshaw and Joe Parkinson, The Wall Street Journal.

The best response to the worsening geopolitical outlook is a stronger state balance sheet. The government has chosen to wish it away.

John Moran says he won a mandate for change and he has been driving it hard, convinced that the prize is big for Limerick and Ireland. Amid the fallout, there is a challenge: locating the truth in the fog of conflict and the murk of accusation and counter-accusation.