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 […]
A fairly extraordinary letter, sent to Limerick Independent Councillor Elisa O’Donovan: Today I received notice that the waiting time for a routine diabetes appointment for @ULHospitals is 5 years.This is simply not acceptable @roinnslainte. We need staff and resources for the thousands living with this chronic condition in the Mid-West #diabetes pic.twitter.com/NOUfQZAdHl — Cllr Elisa […]
Question: What could cause a house that hasn’t been occupied for several years to spontaneously burst into flames mere days before a traveller family were due to move in? Gardaí in Galway are investigating a fire which extensively damaged a house which had been recently purchased to accommodate a Traveller family. The fire at the […]
This was the top trending story on social media all weekend, and with some good reason, too. Depending on your point of view, it was either a case of the country’s most prominent conspiracy theorist finally meeting a member of the Gardai who wasn’t going to put up with her, or evidence of the tyrannical […]
Last week’s entirely stupid rule: You cannot have any more than six people in your own home. This week’s somehow even stupider rule: You can go to a music concert with hundreds and hundreds of people, but only if you don’t drink: Musical events and gigs may be allowed to go ahead if alcohol is […]
They took our football matches. They took our restaurants. They took our nights out in the pub. And now, say the Vintners, it’s time to take away alcohol altogether: THE CEO OF the Vintners’ Federation of Ireland (VFI) has said restrictions on the sale of alcohol should be considered if clusters of Covid-19 are being […]
Last week, Joe Biden spoke for 24 minutes and declared that the “President’s character is on the ballot”. Last night, President Trump got his go at making a pitch to America, and declared that the Democratic agenda would all but end America as we know it. Trump took a bit longer than 24 minutes, too: […]
Great news for anti-social people-haters like me who like to find any excuse to avoid human company. But the rest of you must be wondering what on earth he’s thinking: Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has warned the State is at a “tipping point”, and that the coronavirus pandemic is “close to having us lock […]
The fifteen year old who was gang-raped by a bunch of older men in a Dublin hotel is, the Irish Times and Irish Independent told us yesterday, “troubled”: A 15-YEAR-OLD girl deemed at high risk of sexual exploitation was reported to have been “coked out of it” while spending the night at a Dublin city […]
Albino Luciani, Cardinal Patriarch of Venice, was elected as Pope John Paul I on this day, August 26th, in 1978. Born in 1912, John Paul I was 65 years old at the time of his election, and in poor health. Though a popular choice amongst the Cardinals at the time of his election, he had […]