The thing about President Higgins these days is that just when you think he can’t get any more absurd, he proves you wrong. Here he is now, suddenly fierce concerned about human rights abuses and conflict with peaceful protests: President Michael D. Higgins has expressed the “greatest heartbreak” at scenes of “military confrontation with peaceful […]
The first two casualties of the American Civil War were suffered at Fort Sumpter, South Carolina, on April 12th, 1861, when southern, pro-slavery forces fired on the garrison of the US Army. Daniel Hough was 36 years old, from Tipperary, and Edward Galloway, whose age has not been recorded, was from Cork. Both men had […]
Reciting a pledge, renouncing your sins, hands upturned to receive absolution? You can recognise a religious ceremony when you see one, and here it is, in Bethseda, Maryland, yesterday: We often joke, those of us on the centre right, that in many quarters progressivism has become a kind of secular religion, and perhaps now you […]
Via the good folks at TipperaryLive. Go and give them a click: “County Tipperary publican John Harney has called time on inconsistent restrictions as he plans to reopen his public house in Ballyclerihan, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary on June 29th ahead of the proposed date for reopening public houses set by the government. Harney’s Final Furlong […]
The opening paragraph of this report from America’s National Public Radio (NPR), which is the closest thing the US has to RTE, has to be seen to be believed. Emphasis added: Mass protests that have erupted over police brutality toward black people in America are raising concerns about the risk of spreading the coronavirus. But […]
While events in America matter to Ireland, at least at the periphery, they’re objectively less important than events in Europe, which impact us directly. Which is why it’s odd that so much attention is being given to the riots in American Cities while no media outlet, except the one you are presently reading, bothered to […]
If it wasn’t so serious, it would be very amusing to watch politicians twist themselves into pretzels to try and make clear that they don’t approve of a massive gathering in the middle of the pandemic, without alienating their left wing supporters. Here’s Simon Harris, striking a very different tone to the tone he’d take […]
Here are a collection of clips that you will not see, under any circumstances, on RTE, or in the Irish Times, or in the Independent, or on the Journal, where the only story of the American protests is that it’s a peaceful demonstration by black Americans against police brutality. It’s not. Rioters smashed up cars […]
The coronavirus in Ireland has claimed the lives of 1,650 people, a large majority of whom were those confined in nursing homes and unceremoniously left to meet their fate. For the rest of us, the last several months have been about making unprecedented personal and collective sacrifices in order to save as many lives as […]
In recent nights, long-standing tensions between America’s black community and America’s police force have finally erupted into a full blown conflict across the United States. The death of George Floyd, a 46 year old black man, at the hands of Minneapolis police last week, was the spark that ignited the flames. Though the background to […]
Judging by the headlines of all the major papers and news websites this morning, there is mounting fear and anger in the country at the prospect that schools – primary schools in particular – may not be able to re-open as normal in September. On the face of it, the anger and confusion is justified. […]
In most other western countries, the release of this HSE memo by former Simon Harris appointee Dr. Marcus De Brun would be leading the news everywhere. Not in Ireland, though, where the top story everywhere is about schools re-opening in September, which is almost four months away. And poor Dr. De Brun’s tweet of the […]