The Traveller Pride festival has been taking place since Monday for two weeks and it features a host of gifted and award-winning musicians and performers such as the traditional singer Thomas McCarthy and Ireland’s Got Talent star, Sharyn Ward. Many of those taking part in the events point to the relentlessly negative portrayal of Travellers in the […]
Today FM presenter Matt Cooper has come under fire for his softball interview with controversial activist Peter Tatchell, whose comments on paedophila and sex with children have come under the spotlight again after photos of the campaigner emerged with the Minister for Children and other people of influence in Irish society. Cooper opened the sympathetic segment on The […]
Right now, it feels as if there are two very distinct realities in this country. For a rapidly shrinking number of people, Covid-19 is still being taken seriously. The press conferences with the Department of Health are being closely watched, social distancing is carefully practised, and the remaining lockdown restrictions are being observed. Then for […]
If a week is a long time in politics then Sinn Féin must be feeling that anytime with coronavirus is an eternity – and an eternity during which the party went from hero to zero in the blink of an eye. Back in February, which now seems like a lifetime ago, Sinn Féin were understandably […]
Leo Varadkar, or so the polls tell us, is the darling of the nation. He saved us all from Covid and can do no wrong. Polls show that 88% of Irish people believe the government did a good job of handling the Covid crisis – while an almost unprecedented 72% expressed satisfication with the government. […]
A shocking report by BBC Newsnight has revealed that staff at England’s only service offering gender reassignment services for young people and children, the Tavistock Trust, believe that real harm is being caused to children because they are being facilitated in rushing to make irreversible decisions about changing sex. The testimony of staff in the Newsnight report is […]
So the Greens now have their hands on the reins of government, surely bringing some badly-needed compassion to considerations regarding all helpless creatures in peril such as red squirrels and maybe even unborn babies? Not so. The Programme for Government agreed by Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Greens includes 17 references to animal welfare […]
The study, published in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal the Lancet, made headlines everywhere from the Irish Times to the Washington Post, especially in media platforms anxious to strike a blow against PresidentTrump, which, let’s face it, is almost all of them. Hydroxychloroquine – the drug hailed by President Trump as a ‘game-changer’ in the coronavirus […]
We put out the bins earlier in the week, and I thought of all the unsung heroes of this pandemic who made sure we were safe and getting the services we needed as we stayed locked down in our homes. Even at the height of the lockdown, the refuse collectors were still coming around the silent streets to […]
As expected, most of the Irish media have swung in behind an Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s blatant flouting of his own ‘no picnic’ rule for the Covid-19 restrictions. The Irish Times posted a helpful ‘explainer’ which explained nothing but helpfully told readers that Leo was fully complying with guidelines, which he clearly wasn’t. It was so mean of anyone […]
Two years ago, like 723,000 other people, I voted No to removing the 8th amendment from our constitution. I believed that preborn babies have a right to life, that women deserve better than abortion, and that the result of the referendum was the most shameful day in Ireland’s history. I still do. And the last two years […]
A profoundly shocking news clip from Al Jazeera has again raised the disturbing practice of ‘screening out’ people with Down Syndrome before they are born. The clip, posted by disability awareness group, Don’t Screen Us Out, shows a spokesperson for Chinese biotech company BGI Genomics talking up the company’s ability to provide screening tests for […]