You’ll have heard by now about David Norris spending €70,000 on his website, a story so delicious that even his relatively good friends at the Irish Times are raising an eyebrow about it. I must confess I eagerly logged on to www.senatordavidnorris.ie this morning to marvel at what that kind of money can buy, and, […]
The young man in the photo above looks harmless enough, doesn’t he? And yet, this week, more Fine Gael politicians have said that he should resign his position than ever said the same for their colleague, Maria Bailey, after she was caught apparently trying to perpetrate an insurance scam. He is Killian Foley-Walsh, the President […]
Good news for Doggos, finally.
Well, no, it’s not really “new”.
Well done, Minister Harris. The public have been crying out, after all, for free condoms in third level colleges, and finally, he has delivered. Never say he’s not stuck into his briefs. You can sleep easy in your bed this autumn, safe in the knowledge that your beloved first born is well-equipped for the sexual […]
Strong words here, and newsworthy coming from one of the UK’s most visible transgender people. India Willoughby is a former ITV news correspondent (under her birth name of Jonathan Willoughby), and is well known for pioneering the cause of transgender visibility. Amongst other things, she is the first transgender woman to be a regular panellist […]
In that Ireland, public displays of piety and conformity were fundamentally expected. Those who openly lived in contravention of the dominant culture were at best regarded as eccentric, and at worst denounced from the pulpit, or openly scorned. Bishops and Priests were not just religious leaders, they were political and economic patrons, capable of swinging elections, or helping your child get a job.