“We need to get a grip on it before it gets a grip on us”. Irish people have some great comments to make about #coronavirus #gript
The campaign against the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter saw a Supreme Court case, vandalism, and dead rats nailed to the door of the shelter. The city council of Vancouver this week voted to withdraw its funding from Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter, which has helped victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault […]
As you may have noticed, the last three years or so has seen the UK consumed with the ins and outs, the minutiae and meanderings of some little thing called Brexit. Now, it seems as if it has really happened, and the UK has actually left the EU. Of course there is still a long […]
A video on the social media site TikTok has surfaced showing a drag queen performing a suggestive dance for a little girl. The video was posted by TikTok user Amelia Marino, and shows the little girl seated in the middle of the room surrounded by adults as the drag queen dances provocatively to club music […]
Milan is in the grip of an epidemic. Towns have been quarantined. Public gatherings have been cancelled. The streets are empty. Public officials try to dampen mounting hysteria. Dark rumours are circulating. Hospital wards are overflowing. The coronavirus? No, the Great Plague of 1630 in which perhaps a million (1,000,000) people died. Seventeen (17) have died so […]
For the people of Maynooth, Domhnall Ua Buachalla is a name not known to many of the town’s current population. Some may know of him as the propietor of a Hardware Store that had been in his family since 1853. The store itself closed its shutters for good in 2005, with the building presently called […]
As the first case of the Corona Virus is being confirmed on the island of Ireland, Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD has called for the immediate recall of the Dáil in order to help deal with the crisis. Deputy Tóibín said that the Irish authorities needed to look at enforcement of self-isolation recommendations and the […]
Former US Vice President Joe Biden holds an interesting and unenviable record. He’s run for President of the United States three times – 1988, 2008, and now in 2020. And in those three campaigns, he has never won a single primary. Not one, not ever. Since entering the present contest as the frontrunner, he’s had […]
The Citizens’ Assembly on gender equality met just over a week ago. Regrettably, the session on “The family in the constitution and law”, was a prolonged attack on marriage and its special status in the Constitution. Prof. Siobhan Mullaly from NUI Galway, who spoke as an expert, should have explained why marriage deserves constitutional protection. […]
Germany’s highest court has overturned a ban on assisted suicide, introduced in 2015, which was ‘supposed to prevent anyone offering assisted sucide as a commercial venture’ while excempting from punishment ‘relatives or doctors who helped a single patient to die on a one-off basis’; the German constitutional court ruled that the ban meant those ‘offering […]
Those of us who live in certain parts of Dublin and other cities and towns will be aware that there is a significant drug economy. Lots of people it would seem use all sorts of substances that can only be bought from the people who are the Dunnes Stores and Tescos of this economic demi-monde. […]
A few short days ago, the nation’s gallant Minister for Health strode purposely out of a meeting with his officials, sleeves rolled up, frown artfully affixed to his forehead, and announced to the waiting public that he had a plan to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus: He was going to cancel a rugby match. […]