It is, one supposes, possible that misogynistic news-editors have deleted footage of the many thousands of the front-line women soldiers in Gaza and Ukraine, but that’s rather unlikely.
So, the bells toll as Fine Gael’s hearse, towed by a pair of tawdry jades, creaks towards Glasnevin cemetery wherein already repose the mortal remains of the Irish Parliamentary Party, the PDs, Clann na Phoblact and Clann na Talmhan
St Patrick’s Day, without anaesthetic or pre-trauma counselling, is being inflicted on 48 unsuspecting countries
No country in Europe needs a Trump more than Ireland, crushed beneath an iceberg of secular conformism, doctrinaire feminism, mumbo-jumbo egalitarianism and cowardly, pacifist neutralism
Maybe because trees are resolutely binary and not genderqueer they’re no longer interesting to Greens.
Ireland, which is incapable of manufacturing a car of any kind and would be hard put nowadays days to make a trap for a pony, has announced that it will ban the sales of petrol and diesel cars by 2030. This ambition ranks with New Guinea’s noble plan to outlaw bobsleighs.
Simpering solipsisms about exclusion and inequality might lubricate agreeable fictions into a national myth, but that myth does not long survive the stark realities of north central Dublin. Moreover, exclusion has been central to the national discourse, firstly in the word that Ireland has given the world’s languages, boycott, while Irish republican vernacular is rich […]
Predictable
KEVIN MYERS issues a warning to young men: Beware the case of Mícheál Ó Leidhin.
Irish people are being sold a pernicious fantasy about renewable energy by their leaders and will ultimately pay a price for it, writes KEVIN MYERS, in his first column for Gript