A slick new ad from the Government party right here, explicitly designed to stoke fears that Fianna Fáil would bankrupt the country if trusted with power: Everyone should watch this video. Has Fianna Fáil learned nothing? For more, see: https://t.co/f4uGy2PH0n #RecklessFF pic.twitter.com/hRIAb8BPSr — Fine Gael (@FineGael) September 8, 2019 The core criticism here is perfectly […]
This couldn’t be true, could it? Everyone knows women put character and humour and charm and all that stuff first, and money doesn’t matter, as long as you are happy? Well, not according to the latest news from the New York Post, citing a newly released American Study: Research now suggests that the reason for […]
The poet here is Kevin Higgins, a life-long socialist activist, who has a decently profitable sideline in the kind of to-the-barricades socialist poetry that the average Irish journalist finds deeply moving. The poem itself is, at face value, a eulogy for what might have been, had Mugabe not turned into one of the most destructive […]
It is a well-known and almost universally agreed fact in Ireland, or at least amongst the Irish establishment, that if you oppose the Irish Government’s Brexit strategy you are, de-facto, a soup-taking, west Brit, Boris-loving Tory who hates his own country and wants to see it ruined. The backstop, at this point, is holy writ. […]
Adrian Weckler in the Independent has the scoop: A combination of scandals and competition has hit Facebook usage in Ireland, new figures suggest. The online giant has seen the departure of as many as 300,000 people from its Irish user base in the last nine months, according to the company’s own sales statistics. 2.9 million […]
So far, no cause has been publicly announced for the fire that engulfed a parking garage in Douglas Shopping Centre at the weekend, which at present has left 100 vehicles stranded in the facility, many of them completely destroyed: MORNING AFTER: Crews are still at scene this morning in Douglas making up equipment and monitoring […]
A doctor or medical practitioner who believes abortion is morally wrong and has no wish to be involved in an abortion, will nonetheless be compelled to refer a pregnant woman to a doctor who will carry out the procedure, according to new medical council guidelines. The guidelines, in relation to conscientious objection, are as follows: […]
My colleague David Mullins revealed this morning that the National Women’s Council of Ireland received more from a state scheme to support groups that helped the disadvantaged than any other group did – despite the fact that the NWCI provides no services to the public. This should not be a surprise. The entire NGO sector […]
The trial of a medical doctor in the Netherlands this week over the euthanasia of a 74 year old woman in 2016 is notable for many reasons, but perhaps most of all by the commitment by the prosecution that even if the doctor responsible is found guilty, she will face no prison time. The facts […]
It’s not easy being a beloved celebrity in Ireland these days, as Marian Keyes found out to her cost this afternoon. The best-selling Rachel’s Holiday author has almost 187,000 followers on twitter, where she shares insights about her life, blended with reliably progressive and feminist political views on the issues of the day. This afternoon, […]
The broadband plan is back in the news. The Journal.ie reports this morning that the Government spent €25million of taxpayer’s money on consultancy reports into the national broadband plan between 2013 and 2019. A hefty sum, by anyone’s standards: In a letter from the Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe to the Oireachtas Budgetary Oversight Committee, seen […]
I suppose they’ll fit right in. The current members, after all, include Cuba, Saudi Arabia, China, Somalia, Pakistan, and Nigeria For those of you unfamiliar with the crisis in Venezuela, a useful recap from the UN itself, in a report from July of this year: The new report ends this charade, documenting “grave violations of […]