Earlier this month, Mokgweetsi Masisi, the president of Botswana, offered to send Germany 20,000 of his country’s elephants. He was reacting to the German government’s plan to restrict the importation, by German hunters, of hunting trophies from Africa. “This is not a joke,” the president reportedly said of his offer Mr Masisi may not have […]
The story of Roger Casement’s landing and capture at Banna Strand in Kerry as he attempted to bring arms ashore for the 1916 Rising, is commemorated in the famed ballad Banna Strand.
Plantation and survival
Start of ‘gigantic’ movement
The Cass Review, an independent review of NHS England’s gender identity services for children and young people has been published. The Countess welcomes this comprehensive investigation into the gender identity service that provided treatment to children and adolescents who experienced distress relating to their bodies. The review has ramifications for Ireland because the HSE used […]
Luc Van Gorp told Belgian media earlier this week that people who are tired of life should be allowed to end it through euthanasia.
It is indicative of the almost complete control that Micheal Martin has over his own parliamentary party that there was not even a peep of dissent about his decision to agree automatically to the ” Crowning” of yet another Fine Gael Taoiseach without an electoral mandate – this time in the shape of Simon Harris. […]
Joseph Plunket and Grace Gifford married just hours before he was executed in the Stone-breakers’ Yard on the morning of 4 May 1916.
In 1997, Oregon became the first jurisdiction to legalise physician-assisted suicide for people with a terminal illness. Since then, numbers have increased year-on-year, and this shows no sign of slowing. Last week, Oregon produced its 26th report. This shows that 2023 saw a 20 percent increase in assisted suicide compared to 2022, which itself had […]
Several relatively unlikely things had to happen together for this tragedy to take place.
A bigger home market
Yes, it’s human nature to want answers, but the answer can be – that person is just bad.