Monarchy is just something you could not institute or invent, in 2022. For perfectly understandable reasons, it would be difficult to win support for the idea of placing a crown on the head of Michael D. Higgins, swearing allegiance to him for life, and pledging loyalty to the heirs and successors of his body. For […]
This weekend, the life of the magnificent Gaelic prince Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill will be remembered and celebrated in Spain where he died as he sought assistance for Ireland after the Battle of Kinsale.
“They do not represent me”
This is, and ever was, goodboyism. The politics of getting a pat on the head, and making the pat on the head a virtue.
It’s a funny thing, in 2022, to live in a modern, tolerant, compassionate country like Ireland.
You first, mate.
According to The Kerryman: “two-hundred Ukrainian refugees are to arrive in Portmagee in the coming weeks”. The small town of Portmagee, or so the 2016 census records, has a population of 123 people. It is expected that the refugees will live in local holiday homes. The town, named after famed smuggler, Captain Theobald Magee, is […]
There are a few things here, besides the revolting hypocrisy.
An insecure supply of energy, driven by an ideological crusade to purge the country of unclean things.
It might just be time to have a reckoning with the fact that the Irish media and political establishment is suffering from an exceptionally demented case of Anglophobia.
So, I think the main trouble here is that we’re avoiding the central issue.
And pay more taxes