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I had a lightbulb moment regarding the current thinking of NPHET the other day following two conversations with academics here and in the UK on the subject of vaccinating children against Coronavirus. You may have read my previous thoughts on vaccinating young people generally on this platform. Both of them make the same argument. We […]
“Whole areas of research are off-limits. Top physicians treat patients based on their race. An ideological ‘purge’ is underway in American medicine.” These are the words of Katie Herzog, who penned two bombshell exposés last week about the gangrenous spread of wokeness in America’s medical industry. She published them at the Substack account of Bari Weiss — […]
Present-day society has developed a disturbing ambivalence to suicide – on the one hand, abhorring it as a tragedy and calling for preventative measures; on the other, promoting it by the legalisation of euthanasia. Gary Furnell, whose work for a funeral director has exposed him to the frequency of suicides, especially of young men, looks to […]
Governments love to talk up renewable energy, describing it as green and low-carbon and the way of the future. They pump huge amounts of funding into it, and, in this country, are shutting down peat production and promising to leave carbon fuels like oil and gas in the ground, because they claim energy from wind […]
Matt Talbot died of a heart attack in Granby Lane on Trinity Sunday, 7 June 1925, whilst making his way to Mass in St. Saviour’s Church on Dominick Street. His life would have gone unnoticed were it not for the cords and chains discovered on his body when he died suddenly that day. No one […]
Ó Néill (1585 – 6 November 1649) was a Gaelic Irish soldier and one of the most famous of the O’Neill dynasty of Ulster in Ireland. O’Neill left Ireland at a young age and began the formal continental military career serving in the Spanish army. He was a brilliant military strategist and tactician. With the […]
Black & White will publish The Colour of Ireland: County by County 1850-1950 in October 2021. Covering all 32 counties, The Colour of Ireland includes over 150 beautiful photos, bringing the people and places of Ireland’s history to life in incredible and vibrant detail. Painstakingly researched, this fascinating new book provides a unique social account of Ireland, […]
Imagine the headline: ‘The art world was shaken by news that the work of Italian artist, Salvatore Garau, had been stolen just hours after it was shipped to its anonymous owner for display. It was due to be put on private display for the first time since its record breaking sale just days ago’. The […]
The internationally-renowned uilleann piper and maker Leo Rowsome has been honoured by a Dublin City Council commemorative plaque on the street where he lived and worked until his death in 1970. Born into a piping family in Harold’s Cross, Leo Rowsome was the third generation of an unbroken line of uilleann pipers, who went on […]
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The Sunday Times, the leading newspaper in the UK, has launched a campaign to end the ban on assisted suicide. It has thrown its weight behind a private member’s bill in the House of Lords introduced by Baroness Meacher, who is also the chair of Dignity in Dying. At the top of the page is the […]