It seems like RTE has gone all 1968 on our ass. Not only have they guilt-bombed us now for months over our white supremacy and slavery associations, but now it seems the national broadcaster thinks that abolishing the police is something they should give a “platform” to. On Tuesday, the national broadcaster posted a piece […]
The development group which was reported to be in talks with the Irish government regarding the possibility of building a city for Hong Kongers in Ireland, has now confirmed that the discussion is ongoing. While the Department of Foreign Affairs seemed to downplay the possibility, Mark Lutter, the Chief Strategy Officer for the Victoria Harbor […]
So that wealthy overseas investors could buy up the country? Luke Kelly wrote a poem some time around the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising lamenting the failure of the Irish state to implement the Proclamation’s pledge to “secure the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland.” With the exponential growth in […]
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature almost 50 years ago, in October 1970. While few people could tell you who the latest laureate is, Solzhenitsyn’s elevation dominated the news globally in 1970. It was a major embarrassment to the Brezhnev regime in the Soviet Union and to those who had devoted a lifetime […]
Saturday’s arson attack on the Cathedral at Nantes whose construction began in the 15th century has taken place amid an escalating series of anti Christian violence and desecration. A person has been arrested but it is too early to attribute any definite motive. No-one was arrested or charged following the April 2019 burning of Notre […]
One would imagine that the discovery of up to 10,000 slaves in a European city might have provoked a major response. Seemingly not, for following on from the Sun and Sunday Times exposure of such an abomination, there has been surprisingly little media or political attention devoted to it. On July 1 the Sun reported […]
The left, far and near, are still vexed over last Saturday’s protest outside Leinster House. ‘Anti Fascist Action’s’ Facebook page is like what you might find when a soccer hooligan firm loses face after fleeing ignominiously from some “tasty geezers.” They refer to someone at the rally as wearing the “cheapest wig in the shop,” and […]
Andrzej Duda who had the support of the governing Law and Justice Party (PiS) has been re-elected as President of Poland. Results released early on Monday morning by he National Electoral Commission indicated that Duda had taken 51.2% of the vote with Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski on 48.8%. The margin of victory was wider than the first […]
Majella O’Hare was just 12 years of age when she was shot twice in the back by a British paratrooper on her way to Mass in Whitecross, county Armagh, on August 16, 1976. The soldier responsible, Michael Williams was charged with manslaughter but acquitted by Justice Maurice Gibson in 1977. In 2011, the British Defence Secretary […]
Contributors to this site have been among those pointing to the startling decline of Fianna Fáil which, despite having finally secured the temporary position of Taoiseach, appears increasingly rudderless. Its support among the electorate has nose dived since a poor enough 22% in the general election, to as low as 14% according to some recent […]
Apart from delivering Cherish leaflets and attending a small number of meetings and the final rally, most of the huge effort that went into trying to trying to save the 8th amendment was unknown to me. I had been with Sinn Féin in Leinster House for many years and I am afraid to say I was […]
The current debate over the extent of Irish “white privilege” and indeed responsibility for slavery has led to the revival of what has sometimes been an unseemly debate over whether the transportation of Irish people to the West Indies during the Cromwellian plantation constituted a form of slavery. Much of the debate over such matters […]