It’s officially election time, which means that it’s officially time for the airwaves to be filled with people complaining about election posters, and officially time for some candidate who doesn’t need election posters to announce that he or she will not actually use election posters. First out of the blocks in 2020 is a former […]
The rare case of a headline being both accurate, and misleading, but, completely entertaining: “The home secretary, Priti Patel, has defended anti-terror police for putting the Extinction Rebellion environmental protest group on a list of extremist ideologies, saying it was important to look at “a range of security risks”. While accepting that XR was not […]
On the one hand, this can’t be right, can it? On the other hand, Dr. Brendan McCann is just applying the available figures to the situation in his own hospital, and the results of that are, well, not pretty: “In a series of private emails before Christmas, the Service Lead in UHW’s emergency department, Dr […]
Over at TheJournal.ie, they’re running one of their regular reader polls, just like Gript, and many other news websites do. Today, it’s on the subject of vaping, and whether so called “sweet flavoured” vaping juices should be banned. Predictably, support for banning the stuff vastly outweighs support for letting people do what they want, 63% […]
“The Dáil will return next week”, announced the Taoiseach this morning, which is slightly different from his position yesterday, which was that the Dáil might not, in fact, return next week, because Fine Gael is so ready for a General Election. It’s good that the national parliament is returning for at least one more week, […]
What is it with the British and being desperate to leave reasonably successful, if controversial, institutions? “The Royal Family are said to be “hurt” at the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s announcement they will step back as senior royals. Prince Harry and Meghan did not consult any senior royal about making the statement, it is […]
Finally, a real alternative to RTE: “A mysterious radio signal is coming from a nearby galaxy, scientists say. And that galaxy looks surprisingly like our own, the astronomers have announced. The newly discovered source, named FRB 180916, is only half-a-billion light years from Earth and much nearer than other bursts that have been found in the […]
Peadar Toibin wrote movingly and well on this website yesterday about his principled objections to the Government’s now-cancelled commemoration for members of the Royal Irish Constabulary and Dublin Metropolitan Police: “There are few families in Ireland that do not have mixed heritage. One of my Grandparents was a member of Cumann na mBan, while another […]
Imagine, if you will, someone going to the cinema to watch the latest James Bond film, and then, twenty years later, sitting up in bed and exclaiming to themselves “by heavens, I think that Blofeld fellow was a baddie!” That’s basically where the French are, at the moment, with acclaimed author Gabriel Matzneff: “The French […]
Jeffrey Epstein may have been a prolific paedophile, but he wasn’t able to do it all by himself. British socialite (and close friend to the Duke of York) Ghislaine Maxwell is known to have been Epstein’s girlfriend, and suspected of having been his procurer of young girls, for many years. In the aftermath of his […]
An amazing story, this, by the Irish Times’ Jack Power, that got somewhat overlooked in the past few days: “Tusla, the State child and family agency, has been returning thousands of child welfare reports made to it by post back to senders with instructions they be resubmitted via an online portal. Concerns have been raised […]
Just so we’re clear about this, it would, of course, be a war crime: WASHINGTON — President Trump on Sunday evening doubled down on his claim that he would target Iranian cultural sites if Iran retaliated for the targeted killing of one of its top generals, and threatened “very big sanctions” on Iraq if American troops are […]