What’s your most controversial opinion? **Read OP** **Mod Note in Post #3372**

Veronica Guerin was extremely selfish.

She had received numerous direct warnings from these scum and yet continued her journalism about them.All of this would be fine if she was single however to continue chasing after them when she had a husband and son was incredibly selfish, nothing she was doing was actually that important or made any difference (gangland crime is the same as it ever was) and yet she deliberately decided to proceed and in the process left a husband without a wife and a young son without his mother all for being a hero journalist.

I feel the same way about those people who decide to climb Mount Everest etc purely for ego and leaving families without a husband or father.

If women participating in sport can't take the rough with the smooth, they shouldn't be crying for an equal footing with men's sport.

For example, the women's rugby team have lost all three of their Six Nations games so far, with England still to come. They are getting a bit of criticism and flak on social media, but nowhere near the extent their male counterparts would be subjected to in identical circumstances. Yet seemingly the players have gone off social media as a result.

I cover a lot of female sports at a local level, and there is an unwritten rule where no matter how bad Team A played, or how much they got beaten by, you can't be overly negative. "They tried to the very end"....."just wasn't their day"......that sort of stuff.

I can't take it seriously when everything is sugar-coated.

If you have ever been in an argument with a woman then this deflection is par for the course. They will only argue the point if they are right. If they're wrong they'll bring up some other unrelated issue.

Car tax should be based on the size & type of vehicle.

absolutely no need for some of these monster size BMWs Mercs Audis Range Rovers.

Don't worry, it's coming. Once most of the country have been fooled in EV's, the gubbermint will realise how much tax money they're missing from them, and introduce a new weight based system. Enjoy your EV then!

The price for taxing commercial vehicles in this country is ridiculous. Especially HGVs…

massive road usage, massive weight, more potential and activity do cause more damage to our roads than private cars… but tax is a pittance…

In our Information Age, People have not learned to be selective enough about what they read.

Junk “free” media news is the McDonald’s of media.

Especially when the top set are blindingly white and the original bottom set are off white

Anti-water charge protests were a gift to opposition politicians. It was an issue that could mobilise the whole electorate which is very rare. Old, young, home owners, renters, retired, unemployed, single parents, rich, poor, urban, rural etc etc had an interest in it.

Opposite knew they could make huge gains from it and people who would never listen to a word they said before would listen. With the bullying lump FG put in charge of it, it was never going to succeed anyway.