There isn’t a lot to say about this budget in terms of income taxes, which at the end of the day is all that most normal people really care about. You should feel sorry for the poor guys over at the Irish Times and the Irish Independent who have to write six-page budget supplements for […]
I was trying to think this morning what this was like, and it occurred to me that the thing it’s most like is when the players on a Premier Division Football team let it know that they have lost confidence in the Manager. “He’s lost the dressing room”, the pundits would declare, and a sacking […]
I cannot believe it took them sixteen years. Shameful. Jokes aside, they really should just rename this thing the Nobel Prize for being a secular messiah and have done with it. Barack Obama won it, you might recall, after he announced that his election “was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to […]
A fascinating proposal from Fianna Fáil’s justice spokesman – I look forward to seeing the uptake in his own constituency of Dublin Bay South. Jim O’Callaghan made the proposal that families should take in asylum seekers in conversation with Fine Gael Minister David Stanton in the Dáil this morning. He suggested that families who housed […]
Minister for Health Simon Harris acknowledged that there was a breach of the abortion law in the case where a healthy unborn baby was aborted in the mistaken belief that it suffered a terminal illness, Peadar Tóibín has told the Dáil. Earlier this year, it was revealed that a healthy baby boy was aborted after […]
Alternative headline: “Green Party wants innocent wolves to be shot by nervous farmers”: Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan has called for the reintroduction of wolves in Ireland to help rewild parts of the country. Last wolf was killed near Mount Leinster in 1786. @rtenews pic.twitter.com/aYMRtvVrC2 — Mícheál Lehane (@MichealLehane) October 1, 2019 Look, I’m an […]
I can hear you lot, down the back, already. “Well of course, McGuirk, you don’t like the citizen’s assembly because it finally overturned centuries of torture and oppression and gave Irish women the right to fully control their own bodies. Stop being so sour. The Citizen’s Assembly is great”. Of course, the idea that the […]
Good news, folks. After what feels like a lifetime of waiting, a new, true, fully socialist Irish movement is here. Paul Murphy has finally stepped forward, to offer the people the revolutionary leadership we have all waited so many years for: “Speaking at the launch in Dublin today, Murphy said that after a year-long debate […]
When I was a child, when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would reply that I wanted to be a zookeeper, or an airline pilot, or a racing driver. My love of animals and planes and fast cars has not abated, though sadly, I did not manage to […]
A funny thing about the way the Irish media conducts its business is that it is perfectly capable of talking about two separate issues without ever allowing a connection to be drawn between the two, in case people might draw the right wrong conclusions. In Ireland now, the media is completely convinced of two things: […]
Irish Ministers have taken 30 trips on the Government Jet this year, new figures reveal. The Jet has been in use for 125 hours, at an approximate cost to the taxpayer of just under half a million euros. The Jet has been used exclusively within Europe, with Ministers apparently preferring commercial travel for longer journeys […]
Yesterday on these pages I asked, I think reasonably enough, whatever happened to “peak oil”?. Today, it’s time to revisit a much more important question. Whatever happened to the 2004 top secret pentagon report on Climate Change? You know the one; it made a few, small, conservative predictions about the impacts of Climate Change: A […]