Below-replacement fertility is creating unprecedented alliances
The world’s largest country could be running out of people
It must be more than “Pro Life Sinn Fein”
The Netherlands is playing catch-up to Belgium, where child euthanasia has been legal since 2014
The basis of the narrative around the push to cull cattle is that cows produce methane, and that’s true. Methane is a strong greenhouse gas, and that’s also true. So, the natural conclusion is that cows are a big problem for climate change. Here’s where the narrative goes awry. because the conclusion is simply NOT […]
Described by Martin Wolf of the Financial Times, as a book ‘of the highest importance’, Deaths of Despair is a genuine attempt to understand what is fuelling the rising deaths from suicide, drug overdose and alcoholism that has been tearing through the United States, particularly amongst white middle-Americans. Deaton and Case are both economists […]
“Ireland has wronged no man, has injured no land, has sought no dominion over others. Ireland is treated today among other nations of the world as if she was a convicted criminal. If it be treason to fight against such an unnatural fate as this, then I am proud to be a rebel and shall […]
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On this day, August 1st, in 1915, the old Fenian Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa was buried in Glasnevin cemetery in one of the largest political funerals ever witnessed before or since in Dublin. At his graveside, the poet, nationalist and revolutionary, Pádraig Mac Piarais gave an electrifying oration which was a speech for the ages, remembered as […]
Shia LaBeouf says that he has become a Catholic
Have you ever heard the phrase “lose the battle but win the war”? The opposite happened to the Roman triumvir Mark Antony on this day in 30BC. Having been defeated at the Battle of Actium, Anthony and Cleopatra retreated to Alexandria, which was soon besieged by the forces of Octavian. For the whole month of […]
By July 29th, 1848, most of Ireland had been truly devastated by the Great starvation. Outside of Ireland, Europe was being convulsed with revolutions. In France, King Louis-Philippe was overthrown, to make way for the second republic. Revolutions seeking the vote, and liberalisation, broke out in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Italy, and elsewhere. Inspired by these […]