The controversy over where Bobby Sands wished to be buried has focused attention on the content of the comms sent out from the H Blocks, and the manner in which they have been apparently selectively used, and perhaps edited for political purposes. The communications were usually in the form of tiny notes, sometimes written on toilet paper, […]
Once again the latest statistics from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment prove that the restrictions on the domestic economy and the movements of Irish citizens within their own localities, does not seem to have impacted on the overseas corporations who operate here. The number of work permits issued in April was 999, which […]
There have been few major electoral contests in the western democracies in the Age of the Lockdown. The Madrid regional elections held yesterday are the most significant, and were regarded as partly a referendum on how the Covid panic has been handled nationally by the left PSOE/Podemos government. If that was the case, the election […]
RTÉ’s Social Affairs and Religion Correspondent Ailbhe Conneely is going to bless us with a series this week “exploring racism in Ireland.” Well, colour me pink. Why has no one ever tackled this thorny subject up to now? If there is not some sort of bursary or paper hat for this daring initiative, then there […]
This image of a Red Army soldier in Berlin in May 1945 was tweeted as part of its celebration of May Day by the youth wing of Sinn Féin. No pasaron. pic.twitter.com/Lbtng876P9 — Ógra Shinn Féin (@Ogra_SF) May 1, 2021 (Incidentally, the original photos was altered to hide the fact that the soldier was […]
Among the terms you may have heard during discourse on what a ‘post Covid’ society might entail is the idea of Social Credit. This has been referenced in regard to the proposed use of vaccination certificates, but also linked to the concept as it is applied in China. The first thing to be clear about […]
Following the raising of the issue by Aontú leader Peadar Toíbín in the Dáil again, An Taoiseach Micheal Martin has finally agreed to meet with families of the victims of the loyalist Glenanne Gang. The gang operated mostly during the 1970s and is believed to have murdered over 120 people. Almost all of them were […]
When former Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy came out in support of “co-living” apartment developments, he was not surprisingly subjected to widespread criticism. The notion that people would be paying high rents and not even be guaranteed their own cooking and bathroom facilities invited comparisons to older, but cheaper, tenement accommodation. The backlash convinced his successor […]
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 […]