A recent media item reported on a €20 million investment in social housing through the iCare charity which says that it will potentially cover the costs of building 165 homes. The money was sourced from 52 Chinese business people who are seeking to obtain Irish visas through the Immigrant Investor Programme. The programme allows non […]
The first round of Poland’s presidential election on Sunday indicated that Andrzej Duda who has the support of the governing Law and Justice Party (PiS) is set for a comfortable victory in the second round on July 12. That is despite the hopes of pro EU parties in the other member states, and indeed a […]
One of the aspects of the 2018 referendum which Jonathon Van Maren’s book Patriots recalls is the extraordinary role played not only by a massively biased main stream media, but by the social media sites. Evidence from other countries prove that we are not alone in facing this monster. Realising that they were losing the intellectual battle, the pro-abortion […]
In a recent report on genome analysis of ancient remains found in Irish burial sites, one ground-breaking finding received little attention. In the tests conducted on the remains of over 30 people from the Poulnabrone burial site in the Burren in Clare, the earliest proven example of a skeleton of a person with Down Syndrome […]
At a time when some appear intent on creating a mythological past for the Irish people, physical remembrances of our history have come under threat. Moore Street, site of the last armed confrontation of the 1916 Rising was once a vibrant street in the heart of the city where a large proportion of Dubs did their […]
Joe Biden’s racialist comment on black voters just before George Floyd took centre stage may have escaped the attention it deserved, but the attitude of the Democrats and the liberal left towards the black community has come under renewed focus. An email sent by a black member of the faculty at the University of California, […]
Given that today is Bloomsday, perhaps it is timely to point out that there has been as much arm chancery about interpreting his politics as there is about many other things Joycean. The only real clue from his written work is that his family were Parnellites who stood by the Chief after his downfall. “He was […]
In Milan Kundera’s 1965 novel The Joke, the central figure is Ludvig Jahn who was consigned to a Czech work brigade for sending a postcard to a class mate containing the line “Optimism is the opium of the people,” and concluding with “Long live Trotsky!” Manchester band The Fall referenced the book on their 1995 album […]
Given the woke left and Black Life Matters movement’s obsession with the architectural vestiges of the vile slave trade that was abolished in the 1800s in the west, you would imagine that they might be exercised by the existence of modern slavery. It would appear not. Much easier to draw up lists of statues and […]
Some of you will be familiar with Dr. Ebun Joseph – perhaps for her brave exposure of the ‘racist’ practises of the Galway hotel which served her with Ribena blackcurrant instead of red wine. She described the unfortunate serving staff who made what anyone could see was a simple error as ‘sick’ and ‘racist’. She […]
There have been many comparisons made between the riots that began in the United States on May 25 and past outbreaks of underclass destruction. Los Angeles 1992 is most often referred to but that was very much localized and did not spread to any significant extent to other cities, despite 1992 having been one of […]
It would seem that some of those involved in last weekend’s protest opposing American racism would rather like to transform this “movement” comprising the rag tag and bobtail of the ultra-left into one focusing on alleged racism in Ireland. Since the protest – which has now been found to have breached social distancing regulations even though […]