On Tuesday the Irish Times published an opinion piece by Professor Chris Fitzpatrick of the School of Medicine in UCD decrying the commemoration of the execution of Kevin Barry who was a medical student in UCD at the time of his death. Barry was hanged in Mountjoy Prison on November 1, 1920 having been captured […]
The sacrifice of the Irish fishery by incompetent negotiators prior to the state’s entry to what is now the EU in 1973, has long been regarded as one of the great betrayals of Irish sovereignty. Curiously, Ireland along with Norway in 1971 refused to accept the fishing proposals in which Irish, British and Norwegian waters […]
An interesting aspect of the Budget was that it once again illustrated the minimal differences that exist across the entire range of political parties in Leinster House. Apart from the outlier of the People Before Profit demand for a wealth tax which they claim would deliver €3.5 billion, all of the arguing was over different […]
After all the media frenzy over the threat of the “far right” lately, it was a self-appointed lockdown far-left militia who were responsible for the violence in Dublin on Saturday. A group consisting of mostly it seems supporters of a deeply penetrated aspirational republican organisation, along with the usual ragtag of soccer casuals and ageing […]
The American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) hosted a four day conference at Great Barrington, Massachusetts between October 1 and 4 which concluded with the launch of a statement regarding what the proper response to the Covid crisis ought to be. The Great Barrington Declaration (GBD) was co-authored by Professor Sunetra Gupta, an epidemiologist at […]
Kristie Higgs, who had been a pastoral assistant at a Church of England primary school in Gloucestershire, lost her case against dismissal on Wednesday. She had been sacked because the school management of Farmor’s school in Fairford had decided that she had been guilty of “gross misconduct.” When you consider that gross misconduct for teachers […]
Lockdowns – at every level – have real consequences, and one of those consequences is that hundreds of thousands of people have been living on a subsistence payment since March. You’d have to wonder how many of the TDs, or NPHET reps, or over-paid RTÉ hosts, would be so stridently in favour of keeping the country and […]
Thankfully, the Government remembered who elected them and rejected the NPHET call for Level 5 restrictions. It was clear that the leaking of the proposed lockdown last night had elicited a pretty wide ranging rejection. Unlike the announcement of the first lockdown in March when people were naturally in a state of shock and in […]
Yes, he’s at it again. On Friday, our greatest public intellectual, (with apologies to Fintan of the Times and the existential Jedward brothers) Ryan Tubridy, decided to speak directly to the public about President Trump’s failure to condemn white supremacy. Except, of course, Trump has done so. After Charlottesville, he unequivocally condemned white supremacists, and […]
The Government has temporarily kicked the issue of “assisted suicide” to a yet-to-be configured consultation process through a Dáil committee. It will then come back to be considered and approved some time over the next year. Predictably enough the far left sponsors of the Bill and their Sinn Féin tail were not happy about this. […]
David Burke’s Deception and Lies: the hidden History of the Arms Crisis 1970 is probably one of the worst books written about the seismic events that took place fifty years ago around the alleged plot to import arms to defend northern Catholics, particularly in Belfast where loyalist and RUC attacks had led to the displacement […]
I’m sure it never crossed their minds, but the visit of the Prince of Wales to Stormont to meet his Mam’s two Governor Generals was perceived to have been a tad insensitive by relatives of those killed on Bloody Sunday, the day after the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) announced that there would be no further […]