The reality of surgical abortions are gruesome and barbaric, that is without even entering the ethical debate: that it is wrong to take defenceless human life.
ON THIS DAY: 16th May 1920, Joan Of Arc was cannonised a saint “You Englishmen, who have no right in this Kingdom of France, the King of Heaven sends you word and warning, by me Jehanne the Maid, to abandon your forts and depart into your own country, or I will raise such a war-cry […]
One part of staying safe is staying sane. It’s heartbreaking to see so many good people so badly divided. We don’t know what’s real anymore, or who to trust or what to believe. We seem to be holding onto our own version of reality like our life depends on it. Probably because it does. Maybe, […]
World Fiddle Day in Scartaglin is an annual gathering of traditional musicians not to be missed – but this year, like everything else, it will take place online. The Kerry village hosts a celebration of the fiddle and traditional music and song of area surrounding Scartaglin, Cordal, Castleisland, and those who enriched it by visiting […]
A book has hit Kazakhstan like a storm and is exposing the propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party there. Turarbek Kusainov, the leader of the independent human rights organization Demos, has just published Gloom: Sunset on East Turkestan, exposing the CCP’s lies on the dreaded transformation through education camps. This is the first, exclusive interview with the author for […]
ON THIS DAY: 16th May 1920, Joan Of Arc was cannonised a saint “You Englishmen, who have no right in this Kingdom of France, the King of Heaven sends you word and warning, by me Jehanne the Maid, to abandon your forts and depart into your own country, or I will raise such a war-cry against […]
Like rivets popping on the hull of the sinking Titanic, the stresses of the pandemic are revealing unexpected weaknesses in our societies. Suddenly we’ve realised that it wasn’t a great idea to source protective masks from China, that warehousing the elderly is dangerous, that we need check-out chicks more than we need managers, and so on. But […]
Irish media often present surrogacy as an uncontroversial option for couples who struggle with infertility but we rarely hear reports about children who have been abandoned by commissioning adults, or about the poor women who have acted as surrogates and regret it. A new documentary by the Australian ABC TV covers the story of baby Bridget, who […]
Every year thousands of people are brought before the Irish courts for failing to pay their TV licence, of which several hundreds are sent to prison – a hugely disproportionate number compared to the UK. In the 1920’s, entertainment-based broadcasters took the first hesitant steps toward the wireless revolution, but nations across the world imposed a […]
This week the name of this place we live in caused a bit of a political stir. The Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar called Belfast members of Fine Gael, “overseas members” and a former Tyrone football player referred to Tyrone as “Up here in the UK”. But the truth is the names used for Ireland do matter […]
Several health experts have proposed a “herd immunity” strategy for managing the coronavirus pandemic. This would involve allowing the virus to spread in a controlled way so as to achieve population immunity — even though this may expose vulnerable members of the community to an increased risk of infection. While Australia has managed so far […]
Data from several studies indicates that surfaces remain unsafe for longer periods, with the implication that refrigerated plastic food packaging could carry a greater amount of Coronavirus than other surfaces. Broadly speaking, Western health authorities, as well as the mainstream media, have supplied a rather straightforward public health message on dealing with potential sources of […]