Martha, the last passenger pigeon, died on this day, September 1st, 1914. With her death, her kind became extinct. The passenger pigeon was driven to extinction by humans, and because they were so easy to catch. As recently as 1850, there were almost a million pigeons in North America. But the passenger pigeon was tasty, […]
The vast majority of council tenants pay their rent anyway, because they are responsible citizens. Some, though, just do not. And, as the figures make clear, they get away with it.
Landmines are an especially evil weapon.
Winning once or twice is great but winning at a high level consistently is another thing.
This is – and I’m talking here about the tweet, not the policy – about as transparent an attempt to stir up social discord as you’ll ever come across.
I have come to an inescapable conclusion about seeking public office in Ireland in recent years: You’d have to be an utter fool to do it.
The person who allegedly authored this week’s plea for good counsel finds themselves in conflict with their partner over the question of whether to have children.
The problem, or really problems, are several.
Statues, and names, and all other monuments, do not exist to praise the wrongdoing of those they commemorate.
It’s a religious revival, a sort of religious revolution, in which the earth is God, and we the people are the sinners who offend it.
Once you give Government a tool to do something, it’s always the first thing civil servants reach for when a crisis hits.
“If you want my opinion, it’s this: Robert Troy should be hounded out of office. Chased. Given the boot. Fecked out. Perhaps even made a national pariah.
But not for this.”