The story changes week to week, and the only constant is utter panic. Here is the anatomy of a national nervous breakdown
Consider what follows to be McGuirk’s first law of Irish Journalism: If a campaign is described as “a grassroots campaign” in the Irish media, it is a reasonable assumption that the campaign is being organised by about fourteen state-funded NGO groups on the political left. By the same token, if a campaign is genuinely grassroots […]
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Israeli ambassador Lironne Bar Sadeh writes on the Irish funding of anti-Semitic and terrorist organisations.
Nobody forced the Irish Government to announce that it was considering subsidising antigen tests.
It should be obvious to anybody with a basic grasp of numbers that Ireland has now been making policy, for some time, based on figures which are worse than imaginary.
The media is trying its best to somehow blame the Omicron variant on a lack of vaccination globally, despite the first cases detected being in fully vaccinated individuals, leaving a gaping hole in their argument. Many people seem to be under the impression that, if only vaccination rates across the world were higher, the Omicron […]
in the 5 Dáil by-elections since he became leader, Leo has presided over 5 straight losses, representing the transfer of 2 previously safe Fine Gael seats to Sinn Féin and the Labour Party in convenient annual instalments
A country, and a culture, without children, is a country, and a culture, without a future.
It is important to remember that many people have incentives to make Omnicron a massive story.
In the very early days of Christianity, there was the phenomenon of the Desert Fathers (and Mothers), people who sought the wilderness so as to avoid the various distractions of society, to try to better practise the gospel way of life. Later was the example of St. Benedict (5th century), who built a monastery at Monte Cassino […]
Parents say children terrified by prospect