We discussed this briefly in my other piece this morning, but it deserves a story of its own. There are two points here: The first is that it demonstrates that even the King himself is not immune to political pressure. The second, obviously, is the question of how long this discrimination on the basis of […]
He’s quite right, too. Partying in the street like common gougers. Properly civilised people have their parties with a glass of wine in one hand, and some tasteful finger-food in the other, in the more refined surroundings of somewhere like, say, the Merrion Hotel: Scenes outside Croke Park last Sunday were unacceptable and lessons need […]
At this stage, it’s hard to know whether Australia is a real country, or an imaginary place invented by NPHET to make the Irish Government seem like a benevolent and kind alternative: Fifteen rescue dogs, including 10 puppies, have been shot dead by a rural Australian council under its interpretation of coronavirus restrictions. Bourke Shire […]
It’s difficult to know what to think about this one: On the one hand, fewer organisations have had a more abysmal record in the pandemic than the World Health Organisation. First, they did not recognise the danger of the virus. Then, they actively helped China play down the danger of the virus. Then, they studiously […]
Congratulations to Limerick, who did Cork-haters across the world a great service yesterday in demolishing the rebel county in Croke Park, in front of 40,000 fans. Thousands of people gathered in Dublin for the event. Thousands more gathered in pubs and other venues across both counties, perfectly legally. It was, while not quite a full […]
It’s astonishing, to be honest, that it has taken this long. And it is a perfectly valid criticism of the global health authorities that hundreds of millions of people have been injected, worldwide, with the Pfizer vaccine, and others like it, without the vaccine ever having been given full approval. That was an act of […]
Don’t blame Newton Emerson and the Irish Times here. It’s bloody hard to find things to write about in the dog days of August. The Taliban may be terrible news for the people of Afghanistan, but for people who have to find things to write about, there’s certainly been a silver lining to that particular […]
Credit to the Irish Farmer’s Journal, for this scoop, and to their reporter, Declan O’Brien. You can read the full article here, if you have a subscription. But the basics are easy enough to understand: The ineffectiveness of Government efforts to cut carbon emissions by curtailing Irish livestock numbers has been exposed by forecasts of […]
Poor old ISAG. The Zero Covid campaign has somewhat stalled out. After 18 months of constantly getting on the airwaves to demand more lockdown, harder lockdown, and total lockdown, that campaign, and its credibility, has somewhat stalled out. Yes, Ireland still lags well behind the rest of the world in terms of opening up (see […]
The other morning, if you were up at the crack of dawn, you might have heard me addressing this very question on Newstalk. Yes, was my conclusion, and you can listen back here. Anyway, this is what prompted the discussion: Priti Patel, the home secretary, wants chief constables to make public examples of business owners […]
Dublin City Council’s City Manager, Owen Keegan, is not, of course, the de jure King of Dublin. The last man to hold such an office was Ascaill Mac Ragnaill, who was shamefully deposed by the English in 1170, and beheaded a year later in a failed attempt to regain his throne. Keegan is, however, effectively […]
The ordinary people of Afghanistan – at least, many ordinary women and children in Afghanistan – are the victims of one of the worst calamities imaginable. There’s a lot of talk in the west these days about “oppression” – but the truth is, we don’t know the meaning of the word. The women of Afghanistan, […]