The ‘controversy’ of the National Maternity Hospital is causing people to lose their minds. The most visible manifestation is the minor demonstration in front of the Dail of a few hundred disgruntled activists wearing silly clothes and carrying silly signs. The prominence given to the small gathering by all major news outlets indicates that they […]
A collective trauma
It is 70 years since Whitaker Chambers’ Cold War classic, ‘Witness’ was first released a few years after the famous trial in the United States where Alger Hiss was accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Described as part literary effort, part philosophical treatise, the autobiography of a former […]
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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