Eddie Hobbs Responds to Hit Piece (The Irish Times Letters 13/1/26) Eddie Hobbs responds. Sir, on January 4th, your journalist Conor Gallagher contacted me by email relating to an article he was writing about the political right in 2026 and referring to Steve Bannon’s comments on an emerging Trump here (“Eddie Hobbs: From consumer advice to conspiracy theories,” January 10th).

Politely, I advised, as I’ve consistently done, that I’d zero interest in public office, left or right, and was sticking

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Independent TD, Mattie McGrath has hit out at the “sense of entitlement” he says exists in the Coalition government after it was revealed that an Taoiseach Simon Harris has spent almost €500,000 on private flights in 6 months – adding that the spend typified the “I’m worth it” mentality which produced the bike shed “scandal”. From The Gript, Harris is way out of Control, Dealing with Israel, Harris is like, a Mouse at a Cats Convention, way out of his Depth? Then the Bike Shed, Disneyland Ireland?

The Times reported that the total of almost €500,000 over six months on private flights for Simon Harris included a

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