I’ve had Covid-19. While I’m acutely aware that so many people have suffered terribly and died from the virus, for me it felt like a nasty flu. I was stretched for about a week with fever and chest pains – and then fatigued for another fortnight until my energy levels got back to normal. The […]
The stories just keep coming, and they all have a familiar pattern. Famous, rich and very powerful men who are outspokenly pro-abortion – who donate to abortion providers and insist that abortion must be legal – are accused by women of being the worst kind of creeps. Why is anyone surprised? There’s a reason why these men are […]
In a move that will surely unsettle those who are already concerned about civil rights intrusions, mobile phone carrier Three has confirmed that it is now providing data about its customers’ movements to the government so that it can monitor compliance with the Covid-19 lockdown. The movement data – where and when people travelled – of some 2.4 million […]
So who’s buying them? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A couple would need to earn an annual income of at least €97,500 – on top of a hefty 10% deposit and other costs – to buy even the cheapest […]
From time to time, RTÉ reveals the frankly obscene salaries paid to people like Ryan Tubridy and Ray D’Arcy and everyone gets a bit hot under the collar for a day or two until the fuss dies down. This year, no doubt operating on the basis of finding a “good day to bury bad news” the […]
An investigation by Sky News Australia into bias shown by Facebook’s ‘fact-checkers’ has revealed that one of the leading academics assessing who can become a fact-checker for the online platform, Prof Margot Susca, is a liberal activist. She also signed-off on the Irish platform, TheJournal.ie, becoming a supposedly unbiased checker of facts for the platform. Digital […]
Carmel Gunning is one of Ireland’s most accomplished and well-known traditional musicians, a virtuoso tin whistle and flute player, and a renowned singer and composer. She has also spent a life-time teaching traditional music, particularly in the uptempo, lifty, exciting Sligo style formed from that county’s immense tapestry of culture and tradition. I’ve had the […]
Pat Finucane’s family were sitting down to Sunday dinner at their home in North Belfast on February 12th, 1989 when their door was smashed in by masked loyalist killers wielding sledgehammers. The gunmen then shot Finucane fourteen times in front of his wife Geraldine and his terrified children. He was 39 years old. Since that […]
We’re going to let you have turkey but there’ll be absolutely no hugging, says Nphet and their fellow Scrooges. ‘Maybe one glass of wine but inspectors will be calling to check on the seating”. It’s all for our own good, the government agrees, though Golfgate and and then RTEgate has led many to question whether […]
If I was a male teacher in Carlow Presentation College, I would lawyer up. The lazy, dishonest and vindictive reporting and commentary around wearing school uniforms in the school has caused male teachers to be described as “paedos” and “sleazebags” who needed to be attacked and confronted. What did the terrible male teachers of Carlow Pres do? Nothing, actually. […]
First we had Golfgate, where a raft of politicians including a Minister and an EU Commissioner joined a Supreme Court judge and various broadcasters and political elites to golf, dine and mingle in the middle of a Coronavirus lockdown. The anger expressed at the flouting of the rules was exacerbated by the fact that some of those […]
Sometimes it’s in moments of triumph that a person’s real character is revealed. For some Democrats in the US, vengeance is always the first item on the agenda. McCarthyism had nothing on these people and their new definition of un-American activities. First up, of course, was Democratic Congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of a host of well-heeled political operatives […]