Angela Merkel is once bitten, twice shy.
Dublin City Council’s City Manager, Owen Keegan, is not, of course, the de jure King of Dublin. The last man to hold such an office was Ascaill Mac Ragnaill, who was shamefully deposed by the English in 1170, and beheaded a year later in a failed attempt to regain his throne. Keegan is, however, effectively […]
The ordinary people of Afghanistan – at least, many ordinary women and children in Afghanistan – are the victims of one of the worst calamities imaginable. There’s a lot of talk in the west these days about “oppression” – but the truth is, we don’t know the meaning of the word. The women of Afghanistan, […]
Moving deck chairs around.
That’ll tell ’em.
Annual cost of child attending secondary school is €1,500, on average.
Come off it.
Neil Francis recently lost his job as a rugby columnist with the Irish Independent following comments he made about British and Irish Lions out-half Marcus Smith on a podcast in July. Francis described Smith as “a Harlequins out-half with a David Beckham haircut and an Oompa Loompa tan”. Smith was born in the Philippines to […]
The Memorandum allows for the selection of teachers from China to teach in Irish schools along with a “language advisor if required
We have to move beyond the insulting caricatures that exist on ‘both sides’ of the debate
Brutality
A favourite pastime, writes Margaret Hickey, is Bashing the Church.