A new major poll has found that only 27% of French people believe that the EU is advantageous to France overall. The poll was conducted by France’s oldest and most respected daily financial newspaper, Les Echos, which is 114 years old. According to the poll, which asked about the advantages and disadvantages of the EU, […]
The Polish government has announced that it will dramatically cut VAT on petrol from next month to combat inflation and the rising cost of living. The VAT rate will be cut from 23% to 8%, with other taxes on gas, petrol and electricity being slashed as energy costs rise faster than they have in two […]
Just 6 weeks ago, on November 23rd 2021, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar assured the public that boosters would not be required for one to maintain a valid Covid cert. The comments were made when asked if such a move was on the cards for Ireland. As reported by the Journal.ie: ““People don’t need to be worried […]
Fine Gael Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has said that Ireland’s corporate tax revenue will begin to decline after 2023. Speaking on Thursday to RTÉ radio, the Minister said Ireland would “lose money” on the new OECD arrangement, whereby Ireland’s famous 12.5% corporation tax would be raised to 15%. “If you look at where we are […]
Let’s face it – there’s a lot of total and utter crap on the internet. We’ve all seen it; from genuinely insane conspiracy theories, to blatant propaganda, to outright lies from malicious activists. The web is chock-full and overflowing with tripe of the highest order, on just about every subject you could imagine. In fact, […]
Western researchers stand accused of channeling their inner Dr. Frankenstein or mad scientist, after it appears that they’ve been playing God with artificial viruses. Experts say it could have “irreversible consequences” for the human race. Not only are scientists apparently creating viruses that are more infectious by design, spreading between hosts more easily, but they […]
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In March of 2021, Taoiseach Micheál Martin told us confidently that vaccines were “our way out” of the pandemic. In fairness, he didn’t specify how many doses it would take to get there. And even now, we still don’t know. As reported in Newstalk today: “Booster certs will eventually be needed to access bars and […]
You know, if you want to convince people to do something for you, it’s typically a bad idea to insult them, intentionally go out of your way to infuriate them, and figuratively tell them to kiss your ass. Apparently French President Emmanuel Macron missed that tip in media training. With the French presidential election just […]
Hold on now; I know you’re planning a party with friends, but before you reach for that alcoholic beverage, isn’t there someone you forgot to ask first? Namely, Micheál Martin? Where is your permission slip, boyo? If you’ve tried to buy drink at all in the last few days, you probably will have noticed the […]
No matter what’s happening as regards Covid in Ireland, the government has one answer and one answer alone: Panic. When deaths are up even slightly, they panic. When hospitalisations are up even slightly, they panic. When deaths and hospitalisations are down, they prepare for an imagined incoming new wave (which may or may not come […]
One has to ask – if scenes of vicious police violence towards unarmed protesters had been witnessed at, say, a Black Lives Matter event, would we ever hear the end of it? Would it not roundly be condemned by every media outlet and politician in the Western world as a heinous breach of human rights, […]