Government incompetence is no match for religious fanaticism
I remember a colleague recounting an anecdote about an election in England. During the campaign period the Labour candidate accused his Conservative counterpart of going around the constituency “whipping up apathy”! Well there’s no need to whip up any apathy among a recent mission area of mine: it lies thick on the ground and the […]
The rebellion was crushed and he was captured then tried and executed for high treason against the British king George III of Great Britain Emmet’s speech to the court [The Speech from the Dock] could be regarded as the last protest of the United Irishmen: ‘ I have but one request to ask at my […]
The Irish Data Protection Commission took the unprecedented decision to block all data transfers between Europe and the United States.
Born in 1550, Aodh Mór Ó Néill (Hugh O’Neill) came from a line of the and the successors to the Chief’s of the O’Neills. He was the second son of Feardorcha Ó Néill and grandson of Conn O’Neill, the first Earl of Tyrne. At the age of nine he became a ward of Giles Hovenden, […]
60% more UK households are facing financial difficulty following the recent surge in living costs
The appalling human cost of the Nigerian Civil War foreshadowed the conflict in Ukraine
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The very one-sided Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy has recommended the recognition of ‘compensated surrogacy,’ which is commercial surrogacy by another name, in Ireland and abroad. Under the broad notion of “reasonable expenses”, women will be paid large sums of money to carry a child for someone else under the terms of a contract. Almost […]
The right of parents to choose how to educate their children has been upheld by the Supreme Court in a major ruling published on Monday.
It would be a very “woke world” that brandishes the name of inclusivity rather than truly embracing the concept.
Taxing the childless, and other pro-natalist ideas