Fifty years ago, Flint, Michigan was a thriving manufacturing hub of 200,000 people. Then known as “Vehicle City”, there were 80,000 auto industry jobs. In 1978, General Motors began downsizing Flint. Eventually, the number of living-wage jobs declined by 90 percent. Things were so bad by the 1980s that filmmaker Michael Moore released a documentary, […]
After years of bloody war, Octavian was master of Rome.
In Ireland, 280 migrants are set to be moved into a village of 165 residents, despite local objections.
A significant event
It was a messy affair – the executioner was drunk.
As it made its way to Ireland, the yacht ran into the biggest storm to hit the Irish Sea for years.
The rebellion was crushed and he was captured then tried and executed for high treason against the British king George III of Great Britain
Born in 1550, Aodh Mór Ó Néill (Hugh O’Neill) came from a line of the and the successors to the Chief’s of the O’Neills.
Damaged social cohesion
According to newly-elected Green Party leader Roderic O’Gorman, Ireland’s hate speech bill should be passed within a matter of months.
In 2022, a memo warned the Irish government that a large asylum seeker influx may damage “social cohesion”, particularly among “deprived communities”.
Promises have been made, but the secret ballot allows a way out.