Illegal drug use is the scourge of cities, towns and rural villages right across the state. Gone are the days when the problem was confined to major urban areas. In fact, nowadays hard-core drug use is approaching something like routine. It is also the source of endless heartbreak for families, parents and children whose […]
GAA star Aidan O’Rourke says the GAA needs to urge government to open up kids’ sports, as children are suffering. Do you agree? VOTE in our poll below and leave your comments here and on social media.
The Statute of Kilkenny were a set of laws made by the English Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lionel of Antwerp. They were passed at a meeting of the Irish parliament held at Kilkenny. It was to ensure that the English colonisers here did not adopt Irish customs and that the Irish must adopt English ones. […]
Australia’s spending on cosmetic procedures topped A$1 billion in 2020 for the first time, according to the Cosmetic Physicians College of Australasia. And a clinical psychologist has warned of the dangers of normalising cosmetic procedures. Dr Ben Buchanan, a specialist in body dysmorphia, told news.com.au that people are getting procedures which they might not need. Cosmetic surgery […]
‘It’s not the end of the world… It’s only three hours on the plane’ I remember myself telling my parents when I started thinking of moving to Ireland. I have always wanted to live here, ever since I was seven years old and heard for the first time Sinead O’Connor singing on the LP my […]
The level of poverty in Ireland was evidenced by further comments from O’Connell: “The last Population Returns of 1841 showed that, out of the whole rural population of Ireland, 46 per cent lived in a single room; the entire human family and the pigs occupied the same apartment together. The next fact was, that of […]
The number of registered births in China has dropped for the fourth consecutive year, despite the nation’s new two-child policy. Figures from the Public Security Ministry released this week showed 10.04 million births were registered in 2020, a staggering 15% drop from 2019. The sex ratio was 1.11 boys for every girl, which suggests that […]
Balance has been restored. Irish politicians have fallen over themselves to pay obsequious homage to the new leader of what’s left of the Free World in 2021. Our Taoiseach is preparing to stare danger in the face by engaging in non-essential international travel to meet him, while when asked if he was happy to see […]
Remember Erin Brockovich, an inspiring consumer advocate and environmental activist in winning a US$333 million class-action lawsuit, the biggest of its kind in US history? She brought a small town to its feet and a huge corporation to its knees, as the tagline goes. A class action was just lodged against Monash IVF Pty Ltd, the owner of […]
The Force is no longer with Gina Carano, one of the stars of The Mandalorian, the wildly popular spin-off from the Star Wars films. She has been cancelled. Twitter erupted with #FireGinaCarano and Lucasfilm dutifully complied. Carano, a 38-year-old mixed-martial arts expert who has moved into acting, became so popular after playing Cara Dune, a battle-hardened […]
Many foreign tourists to this country are more than surprised to learn that the bones of St Valentine are to be found as relics in one of Dublin’s most beautiful, historic and mildly intriguing Catholic churches, that of the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, otherwise known as Whitefriar Street Church on Aungier Street. […]
A writer from the Illustrated London News describes what he sees in Clonakilty “I started from Cork, by the mail (says our informant), for Skibbereen and saw little until we came to Clonakilty, where the coach stopped for breakfast; and here, for the first time, the horrors of the poverty became visible, in the vast […]