The satirical French magazine, Charlie Hebdo, has republished their now-famous cartoon of Muhammad that caused them to become the victims of a fatal Islamic terrorist attack back in 2015. The decision to republish the cartoon came the day before a major trial in France involving 14 alleged accomplices to the killers, who are believed to […]
Cardinal Wilfrid Napier, South African prelate and Archbishop of Durban, has taken to Twitter to condemn the Black Lives Matter movement. “It’s time to state honestly what BLM really stands for – destroying the traditional family, AND what it actually does – destroying property, including religious buildings and objects!”, the cardinal wrote on Saturday. It’s […]
To date, 165 pubs across Ireland have been placed under Garda investigation for selling alcohol without providing food to their customers. Entitled “Operation Navigation”, the police have been scouring the country’s pubs since July, and have carried out thousands of investigations so far. The Garda Headquarters has announced that files on each of the various […]
The ministers are meeting today to discuss giving special powers to the Gardaí allowing them to break-up groups of pub-goers and house parties that fail to comply with the government’s covid-19 measures. It’s been proposed that, under the new regulations, it would become an offence to attend a function of six or more people in […]
Ireland has failed to apply for the EU’s €100 billion SURE scheme due to the long delays in forming a government after the general election, the Irish Times has reported. The EU Commission’s SURE scheme was proposed in April, and would offer up to €100 billion in affordable loans to EU countries so that they […]
Controversial WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Gheybresus, has said that any recovery process to deal with the fallout from covid-19 must include measures for dealing with climate change. During a press conference last week, Gheybresus told reporters that though countries were recovering from the impact of coronavirus, life would never be returning to pre-pandemic conditions. “The […]
Here in Ireland and across much of the Western world, the issue of mandatory masks has become a controversial and contentious issue, with many people being divided into “pro-mask” and “anti-mask” camps. The former argue that masks are akin to seatbelt laws – a necessary inconvenience for the common good to prevent the virus from […]
In a combative RTÉ drivetime interview today, Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary has called on the Irish government to include countries like Germany and the UK in its “Green List” for international travel. “We’re talking about adding countries to Ireland’s Green List that have lower covid case rates than Ireland. You’re in greater danger of contracting […]
If you’ve been on Irish Twitter in the last week or so, you may have seen the viral clip of Sinn Féin’s Lynn Boylan pillorying Fine Gael senator Barry Ward for his gender and skin colour, like the true anti-racist, non-sexist, egalitarian socialist that she is. While debating the wording of a government bill on […]
It’s clear to anyone with eyes that, in recent decades, there has been a radical sea change in the moral direction of Western society. We see this everywhere we look. If recent opinion polls and studies are to be believed, everything that was once frowned upon in the public square – from casual sex, to […]
Rap artists Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion have been making waves since the release of their new sexually-charged song and music video entitled “WAP”. In the video, both women and a posse of dancers and guests can be seen strutting around in outfits that leave nothing to the imagination, while describing themselves as ‘whores […]
In a move that has raised eyebrows amongst political commentators, Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden has announced that Kamala Harris will be his running mate for the impending US election. This is surprising for a wide variety of reasons: from her poor overall performance in the Democratic primaries, to her very public disagreements with Biden […]