The problem, basically, is that while we may have agreed to forget lockdown, it has not agreed to forget us.
It is very, very hard to have confidence in public institutions to act fairly, and fearlessly, in the public interest when you read stories like this.
In the period before the referendum on repealing the 8th, Fianna Fáil TD Jack Chambers took some flak online for taking a pro-life stance. Things got ugly on Twitter, and the Dublin West TD eventually switched off his notifications. He supported a No vote in the referendum, but after the 8th was repealed, he voted […]
In the UK, the media reflects popular sentiment. Here, it reflects popular sentiment in South Dublin.
Perhaps the most frightening thing, if you are a Fianna Fáil partisan, is this: The party is on 15%, and it doesn’t seem to care.
Cuireadh tús leis an bpróiséas chun Acht Gaeilge a chur i bhfeidhm sna Sé Chontae le foilsiú ‘An Bille Féiniúlachta agus Teanga (Tuaisceart Éireann)’ i dTeach na dTiarnaí, i Westminister Dé Céadaoin seo caite. Mar thoradh air beidh stádas oifigiúil ag an nGaeilge sa tuaisceart den chéad uair. Gealladh an reachtaíocht seo chomh fada siar […]
In Summer 2021 Canada had what was described as its “George Floyd moment.” This came with the apparent discovery of mass graves of indigenous people, mostly children. Estimates of the numbers buried in what were claimed to be unmarked sites ranged into the thousands, with the confident assertion that many more would be discovered. There […]
Tolerated
Why bother making the service better, asked one twitter commenter, when you can just re-name it and lower expectations for it instead?
The problem arises when somebody at the end of the seminar perks up with the simplest of questions
It is a tragedy, after all, that one night out, followed by a “hook up” that went wrong, has effectively ruined two lives.
The World Economic Forum, incidentally, has become a sort of corruption of itself.