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A Co. Meath Councillor who has called for the classic novels ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and “Of Mice and Men” to be removed from the school curriculum, has admitted he didn’t actually read either book. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee has been acclaimed for decades as a modern classic […]
Poland’s justice minister says the country will take steps today to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, saying it is being used to force schools to teach children that gender is a social construct, which violates the rights of parents. Minister Zbigniew Ziobro told a news conference that the Convention “contains elements of an ideological nature, […]
Last week, we reported on a startling study from The Lancet which warned that a population crash – where the number of people in a country starts to shrink – was fast-approaching and would have a devastating impact on societies. With fewer and fewer young people to support an ageing world population, we face massive […]
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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 […]
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