This poll result is very funny, but it says a lot more about the American media than it does about President Trump: The media is now less trusted than Donald Trump to provide accurate info about the #coronavirus. 👉🏻 https://t.co/vultD2ZYIn pic.twitter.com/ikxv6OerAm — Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) September 7, 2020 40% of voters trust Trump to give […]
Hardly a surprise. There are a few certainties in life: the sun rises in the east, sets in the west, and the Labour Party is always in favour of the next lefty social change thing, whatever that might be. And predictably enough, this time, it’s euthanasia: The Labour Party has thrown its support behind the […]
It is a fact that yesterday, a significant number of Irish students were awarded results in their leaving certs that their own teachers did not think they deserved. To some extent, this happens every year. Yours truly, for example, fluked a B1 in biology that was thoroughly undeserved, and passed higher level maths when honestly, […]
For several weeks now Ireland has been in a strange place with Coronavirus, wherein the numbers of people with confirmed cases has been consistently creeping up, but the number of people in hospital and intensive care has remained flat, and there have been barely any deaths. This has exposed a real tension at the heart […]
If you’re reading an Irish newspaper or listening to an Irish radio station this morning and wish to get a brief summary of what the latest developments in Brexit mean then you’re almost certainly getting one side of the story, and getting it endlessly. Witness this extraordinary piece of “journalism” from our friends over at […]
Aodh Mór Ó Néill (Hugh O’Neill), Earl of Tír Eoghan and Rudhraighe Ó Domhnaill (Rory O’Donnell) Earl of Tír Conaill – modern day Donegal), fled Ireland for the continent with about ninety followers on this day, September 4th, 1607. It’s often said that their flight from Ireland came at the end of the Nine Years […]
Call me old fashioned, but I preferred the old Dukes of Hazzard, which is what a clever executive would call whatever this show ends up being: Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, having resettled in California, on Wednesday unveiled new Hollywood careers. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have founded a yet-to-be-named production company and […]
Jessica Krug, is her name, and she’s spent basically her whole adult life pretending to be a black woman when, in fact, she was just, well, overly fond of the old sun-beds. Here’s her apology, which to be honest, is much more entertaining than the story itself: To an escalating degree over my adult life, […]
Here’s what the publicans, from Monaghan, have to say for themselves (emphasis mine): For months pub owners across Ireland have borne the costs of this pandemic, and we have done so largely without public complaint. But that ends today. “Across Europe, the pubs are open. Pubs in Northern Ireland can serve outdoors. As publicans in […]
Couple of things here by way of simple explanation, before we get into it: Lots of people, very reasonably, don’t understand the difference between debt and deficits. Put simply, debt is what you owe – what’s left on your mortgage. Deficit is the gap between your income and expenditure – the amount that has to […]
If this decision cheers you for whatever reason, you may as well enjoy it while it lasts. While you’re asleep in your bed tonight, there’ll be a hundred thousand trans activists worldwide searching for everyone involved in making this decision and sending them mean tweets, as well as organising boycotts of sponsors, and harassing players, […]
49-47 to Biden, says Emerson College Polling, which is significant for two reasons. First, there’s an awful lot of crappy polling in American elections – if you want an opinion poll to show your guy winning, then you’ll usually be able to find someone who’ll produce one for you. But Emerson College isn’t a crappy […]