ON THIS DAY: 16th May 1920, Joan Of Arc was cannonised a saint “You Englishmen, who have no right in this Kingdom of France, the King of Heaven sends you word and warning, by me Jehanne the Maid, to abandon your forts and depart into your own country, or I will raise such a war-cry against […]
Attacking the reputation of a Catholic saint, no longer alive to defend herself (although it’s unlikely she would bother in any case), is a popular sport. Christopher Hitchens set the tone in 1995 with his book The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, and since then it has been open house on one of the Catholic […]
The Lancet Commission on the Value of Death calls for the creation of a realistic utopia
More and more, the EU looks like a unitary state, and not a federation. It is perfectly legitimate, as we in the Irish Freedom Party do, to say “no” to all of this.
The Taiwanese Minister of Health and Welfare writes on his countries response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Thursday, we celebrated International Nurses Day, which coincides with the birthday of Florence Nightingale. She is regarded as a founder of modern nursing after she became famous for her work during the Crimean War of the 1850s. What has been largely forgotten is that she took inspiration from the works of medical nuns, who […]
Unfortunately, none of us dreamt up Covid. We haven’t been asleep since March 2020, and we didn’t invent the checkpoints or the missed funerals. A Cork grandmother really has spent months in jail for not masking up in a shop, and Stephen Donnelly did actually want to know what you had for breakfast. What’s more […]
Elon’s Lament: a warning from the world’s wealthiest guy
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And the murder of Baothnalach MacAodhagáin (Catholic Bishop of Ross) The Battle of Macroom was a significant encounter that took place on the 10th May 1650, during the Cromwellian assault on Ireland. An English Parliamentarian force under the command of Roger Boyle (Lord Broghill) engaged a big Irish force that was commanded by Irish Confederate […]
Demographics are destiny
From an economic perspective some of the most interesting things to have happened since the onset of the Ukraine crisis are the least reported. On February 28 the NATO Alliance froze (stole) $300Bn of Dollar denominated assets of the Russian Federation. This was a bad move for the NATO partners. Russia now, and others in […]