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 […]
Hackers, believed to be linked to a foreign state, are attempting to hack the EU Commission using fake emails in an effort to steal secrets on the covid-19 vaccines, American tech giant IBM has claimed. The attempted hacking allegedly began in September of 2020, with culprits impersonating “a business executive from Haier Biomedical, a credible […]
The European Commission has announced that they will be making perceived “hate speech” a crime under EU law, with particular emphasis on stamping out speech targeted at “lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, non-binary, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ)” individuals or groups. The report, which was released earlier this month, describes how “hate speech” will be added to […]
WARNING: Tweet contains an image which some may find distressing, reader discretion is advised. Australia has demanded that China apologises for posting a “repugnant” fake picture posted by an official government Twitter account which depicted an Australian soldier cutting the throat of an Afghan child. The image also had a caption which read “Don’t be […]
If you needed any more evidence of the lockdown being catastrophic for society and human life, it was provided this weekend by one of the Government’s own top experts. Professor Risteárd Ó’Laoide, the National Director of the National Cancer Control Programme, has said the impact of covid-19 on referrals for lung, breast, and prostate cancer […]