in the 5 Dáil by-elections since he became leader, Leo has presided over 5 straight losses, representing the transfer of 2 previously safe Fine Gael seats to Sinn Féin and the Labour Party in convenient annual instalments
Our fascination with, and enslavement to, constantly new things is unthinking and possibly harmful.
The Book of Kells is Ireland’s greatest cultural treasure and the world’s most famous medieval manuscript. It contains the four Gospels in Latin based on the Vulgate text which St Jerome completed in 384AD, intermixed with readings from the earlier Old Latin translation. The book is written on vellum (prepared calfskin) in a bold and […]
Parents say children terrified by prospect
November 1920 in many ways marked a turning point in the War of Independence. It was a month in which the military conflict reached new levels with around 100 killed on both sides. It also witnessed a marked escalation in the number of officially sanctioned reprisals against the civilian population who by this stage, outside […]
Trucker drivers block Dublin city Centre over fuel price hikes, 24 November 2021
I spoke with the G.M. of the facility where I attend, and he said to me that for every 1 suicide I had heard of, 3 more have died that you didn’t.
St. Colmán is referenced and presented in many different sources such as the Irish Annals, geneologies and martyrologies. Born around 530 AD, he is associated through Irish genealogy, with the leading ruling dynasty of Munster of the time, with the Éoganachta, centred in Cashel from the 6th – 10th centuries. Colmán is remembered as the […]
Intolerance
When the Government first released its 1m EV target in the Climate Action Plan published in May 2019, most of us in the car retail sector were surprised. When we looked at the numbers, they just didn’t add up. 1M EVs translated into an average of 100,000 EVs per year, every year for 10 years. […]
The Irish Citizen Army was founded at the height of the Dublin Lockout of 1913 to protect strikers at their demonstrations from the police. Three years later it took part, alongside the Irish Volunteers, in the insurrection of Easter 1916. Its leader James Connolly along with his second, Michael Mallin, were executed for their part […]
Farmers march on the streets of Dublin, 21st November 2021