The resignation of UCD Professor Ben Tonra from a role in UCD over the university’s less than emphatic language in condemning the Russian invasion in Ukraine highlights a growing problem with the world’s ability to discourse. His resignation was prompted by a UCD statement on Twitter: “University College Dublin joins the Irish Government and wider […]
Tithe Wars nó as Gaeilge Cogadh na nDeachúna. People were obliged by law to pay Tithes for the upkeep of the Church of Ireland, which was the official state sanctioned Church. What was ‘owed’ could be taken in the form of money, land, rent, produce or livestock. Struggling farmers did not want to be forced […]
Texas could prosecute parents who allow their children to change their gender as child abusers, says its governor, Greg Abbott. In a letter sent this week to the Department of Family and Protective Services, Abbott said the agency “is responsible for protecting children from abuse.” He warned that teachers, doctors, nurses, and others who don’t report […]
“We can now only avoid Socialism by a change as vast as Socialism”
Will we, as citizens, have any effective way to challenge EU legislation.
We need to prioritize the future by thrift and hard work
Feminism is the engine that drives the woke machine.
Ferdiad? Was he down the pub with Fintan and Fiachra for the rugby? And what does ‘ní tír gan teanga’ mean anyway? Irish revolutionary Pádraig Pearse wrote that a country without a language is a country without a soul, that there is no country without a language, and his words have been quoted endlessly by […]
Patrick Jake (PJ) O’Rourke would not be too well known in Ireland because he would not be the right kind of journalist or political commentator to be celebrated. He died from lung cancer on February 15th, aged 74, with little more than a notice of his passing. He is slightly too much to the right, […]
Following on from our post a few days back which discussed the vicious Shankill butchers (a loyalist gang connected with the UVF); a Catholic civilian Francis Rice, (24), was abducted, beaten, tortured and had his throat cut almost through to the spine. His torture and death was described as grotesque and obscene. His body was […]
You may have thought 2021 was a year of extreme pressure, but geostrategic conflict in 2022 represents a moment of even greater tension
Jan Karski tried to tell the world’s leaders about the Holocaust, but they didn’t want to believe him.