Malta Today carried a very interesting piece on its news site yesterday. It details how in the past few days a group of unprocessed migrants were sent by Malta to this country. According to the report, this was the fourth such relocation from Malta in March. It does not say whether we were also […]
The European Parliament this afternoon approved a proposed regulation from the Commission for the introduction of vaccine certification across all member states. The approval by the majority of MEPs means that the Commission can bypass the normal legislative process. It will be known as a Digital Green Certificate. Contrary to the impression given by some […]
The Cabinet today is to approve a proposal that will mark a radical undermining of the vote of the people in the citizenship referendum in 2004. That referendum, carried with almost 80% approval, closed off a loophole whereby a large number of people had come to Ireland, in order to be automatically be granted Irish […]
Last night (Monday) the Stormont Assembly voted 48 to 12 in support of a Democratic Unionist Party Bill that would ban abortion of unborn children with ‘non-fatal’ disabilities. There were 27 abstentions including all of the Sinn Féin MLAs. One wonders what the party bosses in the “core group” would have ordered the sheep to […]
Last week, a Polish member of the European Parliament, Dominik Tarczynski of the governing Law and Justice (PiS) Party, delivered a rousing speech. In it, he excoriated the EU for its ongoing attempts to bully Poland into accepting left liberal decrees that have nothing whatsoever to do with the concept of a voluntary union based […]
On March 8, the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy published a comprehensive report whose title speaks for itself: The Uyghur Genocide: An Examination of China’s Breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention. The report arrives at the same conclusion as the former Trump administration and states that China’s treatment of the Uyghurs meets all of […]
The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment has just released its statistics on the number of work permits issued to Irish companies for February 2021. Despite the Covid crisis, there has been little change in the numbers of people arriving in Ireland to take up jobs when huge numbers of people already here are dependent […]
The Social Democrats hosted a webinar last Wednesday to discuss the broad topic of left unity. The participants were Sinn Féin TD Éoin Ó Broin, Social Democrat TD Gary Gannon, Labour Senator Annie Hoey, People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny, and UCD Professor Emeritus Kathleen Lynch. A number of things struck me. First of all […]
According to a report yesterday in the Irish Examiner, Gardaí have described those responsible for the violence at Saturday’s anti lockdown protest as “opportunist hoodlums.” That would certainly appear to be an apt term given the background of the person who apparently fired the rocket. He was outed by other protestors, not by the mainstream media […]
The Venerable Fergus Finlay has thrown his ponderous intellect into the war against the Irish Deplorables. His response to the protest against the lockdown on Saturday was to suggest that a census be conducted to discover how many of the thousands who attended, and not just “the violent ones”, were in receipt of the PUP […]
This morning, the Government has announced the publication of its White Paper on Direct Provision, designed as agreed in the Programme for Government, with the objective of ending the current inadequate system of assessing and accommodating people who arrive here seeking asylum. But this proposed solution would appear to be much worse than the problem. […]
We live in wondrous times. Not only are our own Gardaí taking time off from tackling the nefarious Visit Granny Who Lives 6km The Other Side of the Town racket while multi-tasking by Dancing Against the Pandemic, but other police forces are also pitching in. The good folk of Liverpool, now that it has been […]