6,666 babies had their lives ended by abortion in the first year of the abortion legislation introduced for 2019 by Simon Harris, new figures released today show. Pro-life advocates said the numbers were “horrific” and showed a huge increase in the number of abortions taking place on Irish women. In the twelve months to December […]
Last Friday 26th June marked the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Charter of the United Nations, the document which established that organisation. To grasp the significance and character of the Charter, it is necessary to look at some of its key provisions, to discover the principles it lays down and the future of […]
Reddit’s new policy on hate speech says that the rules won’t protect “groups who are in the majority.” Reddit has purged about 2,000 sub-reddits, essentially smaller forums on Reddit loosely themed around a particular topic or group, and adopted a new content policy they say will crack down on hate speech. The new policy says […]
A new strain of swine flu that has the potential to spread from animals to humans and lead to another pandemic has been identified by scientists in China. The virus – named G4 EA H1N1 – is carried by pigs, but it can infect humans, the researchers from Chinese universities and China’s Centre for Disease Control […]
A Catholic priest who stood with members of his flock to defend a statue of a saint in St Louis, Missouri, was shouted down and told the crowd was coming for the cathedral next. Fr. Stephen Schumacher, a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, endeavoured to speak to the crowd who had come to […]
Harry Potter author, JK Rowling, says she has received more than 3,000 emails of support, after she defended the right of women to assert that biological sex matters, despite a manufactured backlash that is still being hyped by media reporting and a social media attack campaign. Rowling spoke out again on Twitter at the weekend, […]
We already knew or should have known that we have the worst form of government ‘except for all the alternatives that have ever been tried’, as Winston Churchill put it. Sometimes it works better than other times. Sometimes, it is not the concept itself that is found wanting but the manner of its application. But […]
The first round of Poland’s presidential election on Sunday indicated that Andrzej Duda who has the support of the governing Law and Justice Party (PiS) is set for a comfortable victory in the second round on July 12. That is despite the hopes of pro EU parties in the other member states, and indeed a […]
White ladies: I hope you’re ready to repent for ever having ever worn fake-tan, for it is surely a subtle micro-aggression to appropriate that which is not yours (dark skin).
Since 2014, Ireland has been what is termed a ‘net contributor’ to the European Union’s annual budget (Multiannual Financial Framework). That is, we now put in more cash than we receive back. Based on the principle that you should contribute more to the budget pot if you can afford it, this is not automatically a […]
A new report, based on leaked Chinese government documents, has said that the Chinese government has been systematically sterilizing women from ethnic minorities. According to the report the Chinese government has also put in place mandatory birth control and forced abortions for women from certain ethnic backgrounds. According to Dr Adrian Zenz, the author of […]
There are times when I have to pinch myself, when I read the concerns of journalists as expressed in our mainstream media, about the interaction between religion and politics in Ireland – and contrast it with the actual relationship between religion and politics in this country, as evidenced by social surveys. A recent survey, carried […]