With the economy in shreds and thousands of people forced into joblessness due to repeated covid lockdowns, the Irish government now wants to tax the pandemic unemployment payment and hand everyone a big fat tax bill to add insult to injury. As the Irish Times reports: “Thousands of workers to get Covid-19 tax bills next […]
The National Museum of Ireland has removed General Michael Collins’ blood-stained cap from public display on the basis that it may upset or cause offence to descendants of the slain rebel leader. As the Irish Examiner’s article on the subject read: “The museum removed the cap which had been on display for decades for ethical […]
In their wonderfully tolerant and egalitarian fashion, RTÉ, the Irish State broadcaster, apparently thought it would be hilarious to air a “comedy” segment accusing the Christian God of being a rapist who forces himself on “young girls.” The Waterford Whispers segment, which aired on the night of New Year’s Eve on RTE One’s “NYE Countdown […]
The European Commission has agreed to give Estonian national robotics company Milrem almost €36 million in grant money to create a new standard for unmanned military ground vehicles, the company has announced. The deal, which was signed earlier this month, is set to develop a new generation of battlefield robots. Known as Integrated Modular Unmanned […]
Australian Cardinal George Pell, whose previous conviction for alleged child abuse was overturned after he was unanimously acquitted by all 7 justices of the highest Australian court this year, claims that his conservative and traditionalist views were what drove public opinion against him. Speaking to the BBC, 79-year-old Pell said that there was “no doubt” […]
Poland has proposed a new bill which promises to combat Big Tech censorship with a threat of fines if they do not uphold legal speech. Announced on Thursday by Polish Justice Minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, the bill would allow individuals to file legal complaints against social media companies who remove or censor posts that do not […]
United States prosecutors have charged a fired Chinese Zoom executive with disrupting multiple video calls which were to mark the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. Xinjiang Jin, who is based in China, has been accused of helping to shut down at least four video calls in May and June of 2020, hosted by […]
Now that Ireland has decided to ban flights from the UK over the new strain of covid-19, it’s worth taking a little trip down memory lane. Do you remember back in March, at the very beginning of the covid-19 pandemic, when Simon Harris, as Health Minister, said that the government wouldn’t be closing our country’s […]
If you’ve looked at the world news at all lately, you probably will have seen that Sweden’s king claimed that his country “failed” to save lives with its no-lockdown approach to the covid-19 pandemic, describing 2020 as “a terrible year”. The scandinavian country has been blasted by many in the international community this year for […]
And you thought her predecessor, Charlie Flanagan, was bad. Fine Gael Justice Minister, Helen McEntee, has taken to Twitter to boast about the fact that there have been almost no deportations under her watch throughout the covid-19 pandemic, describing this as a “compassionate and pragmatic approach”. “I was glad to speak in the Seanad today […]
We have just lived through yet another week in Ireland which demonstrates that our politics is now composed of nothing more than dueling accusations of racism and misogyny, which cover up the fact that our politicians and parties ultimately agree on basically everything. In the wake of the numerous Brian Stanley controversies, Tainaiste Leo Varadkar […]
Just when you think the woke Irish establishment has reached its lowest point, someone like Labour’s Aodhán O’Riordan always comes out of nowhere to prove you wrong. Their newest target? Teenage boys at school – a.k.a the most dangerous demographic in all of society. As reported in the Irish Times yesterday: “Single gender schools are […]