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Establishment media coverage of the large protest against the lockdown in London last weekend provided a typically distorted view of what had actually taken place. If you were dependent on most of the English speaking broadcasters, you would have gained the impression that there were maybe “several thousand” in attendance and that there were incidents […]
One of the most intriguing and enigmatic of great Irish people is a man only known to us as Iohannis Scotti, or Eriugena. Both names merely signify that he was Irish, his real name or what part of Ireland he was born in, are a mystery. He was born here sometime between 800 and 825AD […]
If the country ever wakes up from its Covid induced coma, like Rip Van Winkle, it shall open its eyes to a radically altered society. First-time buyers or families looking to buy homes in Dublin, are up against investment funds who are bulk-buying whole housing developments in order to rent them out. This is a […]
Plans by development company Bartra to build a 155-bed nursing home and assisted living units in Clondalkin village continues to attract opposition. A local group Save Clondalkin Convent has attracted a wide range of support, including from local elected representatives of all parties. There were a number of well attended protests in the village prior […]
One of the benefits of engaging with contrarian randomers on social media in the early morning is that you get to cheer yourself up no end at some of the absurdities they share. In that regard I must thank Katrin for sharing the news that the Australian children’s cartoon Bluey has fallen foul of the […]
The latest work permits statistics from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment once again indicate that the importation of employees from outside of the European Union and European Economic Area continues at only a slightly reduced scale compared to other years. A further 1,046 permits were issued in March, a fall of just 176 […]
In the week that marked the 23rd anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, 1998, the loyalist violence in Belfast underlined the fact that little has changed regarding the fundamental nature of society in the north of Ireland. It is unlikely that many of the people taking part in the […]
Despite the Irish elite’s fawning attitude to the American Democrats, it would seem that the Biden administration is paying them no heed. One of the reasons that the Woke corporations – and their dependents in countries such as Ireland – hated Trump was that the former U.S. President was attempting to ensure that Ireland and […]
Listening to Health Service Executive Paul Reid dismiss the report by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre regarding the infinitesimal risk of Covid 19 transmission through outdoor activities reminded me of John Prine’s paean to doom. Prine sang that scientists,were “bastards in their white lab coats, who experiment with mountain goats”. There’s no suggestion that Mr […]
With the notable exception of Ronan McGreevy in the Irish Times, a report compiled by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre on outdoor transmission of Covid 19, did not perhaps gain as much attention as might have been expected. Most of the media was too preoccupied with a sub-Jeremy Kyle tale of two women who had […]
Part of the rationale for the Black Lives Matter kneel is to express either anger at the treatment of “people of colour”, if you are a person of colour, or alternatively remorse at the treatment, past present and future of people of colour if you are a white folk. One of those injustices obviously is […]
What at first sight might have appeared to have been an April Fool’s stunt, was pretty quickly elevated into real news. The Irish Independent reported in the early hours of the morning that members of the Dublin senior football team were seen, and photographed, at a training session at the Inisfails ground north of Coolock. […]
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