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
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged much of the globe. In mid-May 2021, the Republic of China (Taiwan) saw a sudden rise in case numbers. When Taiwan needed help the most, partners such as the United States, Japan, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland, as well as the COVAX Facility, global allocation mechanism for […]
After Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all charges stemming from two fatal shootings in the United States, US President Joe Biden put himself in the firing line of progressives for claiming that the jury system works and that ‘we have to abide by it’. Credit has to be given to President Biden for […]
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Joseph Mary Plunkett, Seosamh Máire Pluincéid, was an Irish nationalist, poet, journalist, revolutionary and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising. Throughout his life, Joseph Plunkett took an active interest in Irish heritage and the Irish language; joined the Gaelic League and began studying with Thomas MacDonagh, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship. The […]
The publication of a book advocating sympathetic treatment of people with pedophile impulses is an ominous sign.
Glaisne Ó Cuilleanáin was born in a family in Connaught remarkable for its piety. He was the oldest of six brothers, of whom were devoted themselves to the service of Christ in the ranks of the clergy secular or regular. He went to Louvain to study there, and later to Rome. Having completed his studies, […]
On this day in 1920, the body of Fr Michael Griffin was found dumped in a shallow grave in Cloghscoltia near Barna in Co Galway. The popular priest, who was serving in the parish of Rahoon was known as being a zealous supporter of the republican cause and was believed to have been targeted because […]
Michael Patrick O’Hickey was born in Carrickbeg, Waterford on the 12th March 1861. His mother died at an early age and his father remarried. He had an older borther and a younger half brother. He studied for the priesthood in St. Johns College Waterford and is ordainted a priest in 1884. He is an active […]