This basically comes down to a question of who you believe: Sinn Fein? Or your lying eyes? “Sinn Fein”, will come the answer from lots of you who believe the party can do no wrong. Here’s Michelle O’Neill, with the latest line on this, which is a load of nonsense: “There has been considerable controversy […]
Confession: When yours truly woke up this morning, it was not my intention to write not one, but two stories about paedophilia in the one day. It’s a messed up world, folks. But them’s the breaks: British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been charged with playing a role in the “sexual exploitation and abuse” of multiple […]
Just when we thought we had Coronavirus over us, we’re now facing the prospect of mass protests in Limerick: and grossly insulted. There are 3 Government TDs out of 4 in Limerick City, yet Micheál Martin has felt it appropriate to insult all the people of Limerick City with this decision. It's strange if he […]
Former Love/Hate Star John Connors tweeted a question yesterday which, on the face of it, would leave you scratching your head. The new minister for children idolises who, exactly? https://twitter.com/johnconnors1990/status/1278284142757785600 The gentleman in question is Peter Tatchell, a colourful character, who has been an LGBT rights activist in the UK since the early 1980s, and […]
A great scoop in the independent by privacy reporter Ken Foxe: Details of the lump sums, pensions and termination pay for individual TDs and senators will no longer be made public following a decision by Oireachtas authorities. The payments have been published by Leinster House for more than a decade without issue. However, the Oireachtas […]
Fine Gael headquarters secretly recorded the serial numbers printed on ballots provided to its TDs, Senators, and MEPs who were casting votes on the programme for Government, Gript can reveal. While FG members were under the impression that the vote on the programme for Government would be decided by secret ballot, the party’s head office […]
All of the caveats must apply, obviously, to polls, and the biggest and most important one when it comes to President Trump is that if you believed the evidence of the polling in 2016, as yours truly did, then you’d have been shocked by the result (as yours truly, and many others, were). But still: […]
Clever: Sinn Féin has proposed giving every adult and child a government funded gift voucher to spend in pubs, restaurants and hotels to kick-start the tourism industry. Under the €1bn scheme every adult would be given a €200 voucher and every child would get €100 to spend in local businesses that sign up to the […]
Extraordinary: https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1275500569940176897 The background to this: Some weeks ago, anarchist protestors in Seattle set up what they called an “autonomous zone” – basically their own independent quasi-country, in the city. Two nights ago, protestors in Washington DC threatened to do the same. Trump was having none of it. Twitter says that Trump’s tweet constituted a […]
This is getting remarkably little scrutiny, after Irish Times scoop-getter general Fiach Kelly reported it last night: The Greens have widened the eligibility for members who can vote by telephone on the PfG. Was previously only allowed for those outside the country. Now members who have not received ballot paper can vote by phone. https://t.co/UKsBU23wJG […]
There are some things that are inarguably true about the policies of the Green Party, and their priorities in Government, but that rarely get mentioned. It’s important to catalogue them, every now and again. For example: It is true that if Ireland was to cease to exist, and produce no emissions at all, it would […]
Fun fact: Iconoclasm was last in vogue, in the Christian world, during the reign of Leo the Armenian as Byzantine Emperor, from 815 to 843AD. Since then, most societies have shied away from the destruction of images of Jesus, because, well, it’s not very popular. Until now, anyway. A leading figure in the Black Lives […]