The decision by the body representing Irish barristers to present a human rights award to the Movement for Asylum Seekers in Ireland has led to some comment. This is mostly due to the fact that the spokesperson for MASI, Bulelani Mfaco, who accepted the award, has had his initial claims for asylum here refused as […]
Violent scenes
So what, cries the taxpayer, do they do with all the bread, man?
Last night, Dublin City Council voted by 36 to 23 to approve the building of 853 housing units at Oscar Traynor Road on the north side of Dublin. The Glenveagh development will be in the ratio of 40:40:20 – social housing: affordable housing: and cost rental – long term tenancy with a rent that covers […]
Covid-19
Bats or Lab leak?
Two-faced?
Driven by media
Selective reporting
The private members Bill on period poverty sponsored by SDLP MLA Pat Catney passed at second stage in the Stormont Assembly on Tuesday. As we pointed out in an earlier piece, the legislation itself is pretty uncontentious within the parameters of welfarist policy and has given rise to no opposition with regards to its actual […]
The migrant crisis on the Polish border with Belarus continues to escalate as the confrontation threatens to assume a wider international dimension. It seems apparent that Russia is behind what many regard as a method by the Belarussian President Lukashenko to get back at the EU over sanctions imposed on Putin’s neo-Stalinist ally. Russia Today […]
Dads who are mostly missing