In the aftermath of this website’s report on Tuesday about historic anti-Semitic tweets by newly elected Sinn Fein TD Reada Cronin, Republican activist and journalist Eoin O’Murchu posted the following tweet in defence of the politician: Now a media campaign against Kildare TD Réada Cronin. Her crime? Being critical of Israel. What decent human being […]
Newly elected Sinn Fein TD Reada Cronin has had her twitter account, and all 125,000 historic tweets on it, deleted this afternoon, following a report by this website that she had sent a series of controversial and anti-semitic tweets in the years prior to her election. Gript’s Gary Kavanagh reported this morning that Deputy Cronin […]
An Irish mother of two has shared her story of spending sixteen hours on a hard chair in Beaumont hospital while suffering the after effects of treatment for a serious infection that left her unable to breathe. Sarah Ryan was admitted to the hospital yesterday suffering from Quinsy, an aggressive form of tonsillitis that can […]
Imagine, for a moment, that the world’s ten biggest, richest, and most cartoon-villain evil polluters came together in a secret conference to develop a plan to discredit the Green movement and make the population think that environmentalists were all dangerous wackos. Could they conceivably come up with a better plan than to send millions of […]
In the aftermath of an election, it’s natural that all the attention is focused on those who got elected and their haphazard attempts to form a government, or more accurately, to avoid forming a government. It’s less newsworthy to talk about the political futures of those who did not get elected at all, but that […]
Politics is supposed to be a simple enough activity. The basic idea is that various parties put forward ideas for how the country should be governed, the voters choose between the various offerings, and the people who get the largest number of seats in the parliament then have the power to form a Government that […]
There was a very upsetting video doing the rounds on the internet a couple of weeks ago. A mother stork, in her nest, with her three young. Calmly, she picks up the smallest and weakest of her chicks and throws it out of the nest to its death, immune and, seemingly, uncaring to its desperate […]
In Ireland we like to name our coalition Governments – from 1994 to 1997, we famously had the “rainbow Government”, led by John Bruton. This week, Sinn Fein were talking about “a left coalition” comprising themselves and every other assorted left winger in Leinster House – sort of a Marxist pick-n’mix box of chocolates, where, […]
Mattie McGrath is a politician a lot of people deeply admire (full disclosure, since people writing about politics really should tell you these things: He got my number one vote last Saturday) but come on now, this is a bit of a rush of blood to the head, isn’t it? “Independent Tipperary TD Mattie McGrath […]
A strange sight this morning, as Sinn Fein’s newly elected TDs arrived in Dublin for a Parliamentary Party meeting to talk about their strategy ahead of the first meeting of the new Dáil: Sinn Féin gathering for a meeting of its expanded parliamentary party. Not sure who this new fella in the middle is. Anyone? […]
Greta Thunberg might think that she’s the one setting an example to the next generation on green issues, but she’s got a long way to go before she can go head to head with the master: At Oscars wearing Pomellato jewelry because it only uses responsible, ethically harvested gold and sustainable diamonds. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/IBfJzM84v2 — […]
One of the benefits of Sinn Fein’s electoral triumph is that the Irish public will soon see ideas beloved of the left for a generation put, at along last, into practice. For two decades now, for example, the Irish people have been told that if Sinn Fein was in Government, US troops would have to […]