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, […]
Well now.
That’ll tell ’em.
Come off it.
Yesterday, as the Taliban advanced, inexorably, on Kabul, shop-owners rushed to erase any and all evidence of westernisation. Specifically, as we see below, they ran for the whitewash, to cover up advertisements showing women living a normal life: Kabul is preparing for Taliban. pic.twitter.com/h2NKF4y22K — Tajuden Soroush (@TajudenSoroush) August 15, 2021 As you read this, […]