Yes, is the short answer. The longer answer is below, but first, a recap of the disaster that’s unfurled since the US President decided to pull out the remaining American troops: The Taliban captured Afghanistan’s third-largest city and a strategic provincial capital near Kabul on Thursday, further squeezing the country’s embattled government just weeks before […]
Regular readers will remember that earlier in the summer, yours truly regularly pointed to Florida and Texas as examples of places which had abandoned Covid restrictions completely, and were doing just fine. It would be dishonest, then, not to cover the fact that in recent weeks, both states have experienced a mega surge in cases […]
Paddy Cosgrave, pictured above, is the founder and CEO of the Web Summit, which was a staple event of the Irish calendar for a period in the 2010’s, until an infamous dispute about WIFI coverage in the RDS forced Paddy and guests to decamp to Portugal to hold the annual event. Back then, Paddy Cosgrave […]
There was a time, not so long ago, when big tech companies asserted that they were committed to freedom of speech, with reasonable limits on things like inciting hatred, or being overtly racist. If that was true, and all that they did, there would be very little controversy about so-called “big tech censorship”. But of […]
We should be thankful for Ministers whose ambition causes them to rat out their colleagues
Fascinating. The decline in traditional television has been going on for years, but one of the reasons that sport commands such huge royalty payments, in general, is that it has largely been the exception to the trend. The Olympic Games this year, though, suffered a massive collapse in viewers. Why? These are US figures, not […]
Inevitable, really. This Government can’t really count on many loyal supporters, and they can’t afford to be completely alienating journalists and pro-choice activists (sorry, I repeat myself) with whom they made a pact all the way back in 2016 or so. On Friday, Donnelly’s department quietly tried to walk away from the idea, but he […]
This is one of those figures that sounds shocking, but is actually objectively good news: #LATEST HSE tells @VirginMediaNews that 20% of Ireland’s new confirmed cases are people who are fully vaccinated. “Vaccinated people are reporting very mild illness” – @NiamhOBeirne @VirginMediaNews #Covid19Ireland — Zara King (@ZaraKing) August 9, 2021 According to the most recent […]
Here it is folks: The perfect story to determine whether you really care about privacy and freedoms and the danger of big corporate power, or whether you are just fine with companies monitoring our every move, so long as it targets people we don’t like: Apple unveiled plans to scan U.S. iPhones for images of […]
Oh well.
Stunning figures here, courtesy of the Iona Institute, which has been commissioning regular polling on Mass attendance throughout the pandemic: A new Amarach Research poll commissioned by The Iona Institute shows that 46pc of Catholics who were going to Mass on a regular basis before the pandemic began last year have returned to Mass since […]
Nobody told Micheál Martin that Katherine Zappone was to get the big job in New York until it arrived at Cabinet, in the form of a behind the scenes agreement amongst Fine Gael Ministers, and the hapless Taoiseach was bounced into going along with it. In the immediate aftermath, he had the look of a […]