The Taoiseach was out and about this morning, giving a speech to the annual conference of the immigrant council of Ireland. Immigration has been something of a hot button of late, with controversies over direct provision erupting across the country. The Government is committed to introducing hate speech legislation to try and clamp down on […]
This “hot mic” video of ABC news Anchor Amy Robach is extraordinary, and it speaks for itself. Very little comment needed. Watch the whole thing: BREAKING: @abcnews anchor @arobach caught on 'hot mic' in August disgustedly exposing networks decision to strategically spike bombshell investigation into Jefferey Esptein over THREE YEARS AGO. Says what she had […]
For those of you who have been living on Pluto for the past decade and are not aware, “Dancing with the Stars” is an internationally successful popular entertainment programme where celebrities are paired up with professional dancers, and compete with each other to be the best dancer over a number of weeks. Three professional judges […]
There’s an odd assumption that goes around amongst those who support the American President (and many who oppose him), and his re-election campaign, which is basically that it doesn’t matter what he does, or what he tweets, or what he says, he’ll likely win again because the polls are wrong, like they were in 2016*. […]
Strong words this morning from the incoming President of the EU Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen: Today on #EqualPayDay, women earn on average 16% less than men. Written in the European Treaties 60 years ago, equal pay for equal work is still not a reality. That's why I will table measures to introduce binding paytransparency […]
Irish parents, and indeed parents worldwide, now live in a world where their children, as soon as they are old enough to access the internet, are never more than two or three clicks away from the most hardcore pornography. The normalisation of pornography over the past thirty years, and the consequences of that, has been […]
Last night, Fine Gael members in her Dun Laoghaire constituency voted, in effect, to boot Maria Bailey from the Fine Gael ticket for the next General Election, whenever that might come: The meeting last night heard from Deputy Bailey and her detractors, with some calling for her removal from the party ticket. A majority voted […]
It’s remarkable, isn’t it, as a very smart tweeter observed in response to this news, that just a few years ago the great and the good were applauding the power of twitter to facilitate political change on a scale previously unheard of. The Arab spring? Powered almost completely by social media. Barack Obama? The first […]
They’re at it again. Fianna Fáil spokespeople are being trotted out this morning across the airwaves to make the case that now would be a very bad time for an Irish general election, and that it would be better for everyone if the Government – which Fianna Fáil says is useless – stayed in office […]
If you had a good weekend, and headed off somewhere, then it is very likely that you did not see the news over the weekend that the Sunday Business Post published a new opinion poll on the state of the parties, with probably less than six months to go until a general election. If you […]
Apparently, when the rats drive their little cars, they experience a reduction in stress. We’ll see how long that lasts when one of them is stuck behind some fella in a white van doing 60kph on the motorway. Anyway: The study tasked adult rats with learning how to pilot a pint-sized vehicle made out of […]
The village of Keel, on Achill island, has a population of just over 500 people. From later this week, that population will increase, overnight, to almost 600, as the Department of Justice confirmed yesterday that 70 migrants are to be housed in temporary accommodation on the island. This represents an immediate population increase of nearly […]