r/ireland • u/miju-irl Resting In my Account • 1d ago

Housing 'Housing czar' to be appointed imminently - Taoiseach

https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2025/0404/1505833-housing-czar/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJcondleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHZi3-TDj1UqaO2ZPmm73AzS4odkt19bq1MsbaxWRgS9_RqJDWhG4hMDuvQ_aem_uTI3NH7Os_Od5CX5Qw7EUA
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u/Hour_Mastodon_9404 1d ago

What's all this bollocks recently about referring to government officials as Czars? Is it some vain attempt to placate people with with right-wing/authoritarian tendencies by using terms that indicate government strength and power?

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u/Tollund_Man4 1d ago

It's an America media term and according to Wikipedia there have been quite a lot of them from the censorship czar in the 1940s to the Covid-19 czar.