Inevitable, really. This Government can’t really count on many loyal supporters, and they can’t afford to be completely alienating journalists and pro-choice activists (sorry, I repeat myself) with whom they made a pact all the way back in 2016 or so. On Friday, Donnelly’s department quietly tried to walk away from the idea, but he […]
No response from Minister Donnelly
Apple are correct, this time.
Oh well.
It was not so long ago that the Hyacinth Buckets of this parish would have their teenage school going daughters shod in Dubes. Now it seems that the new social cachet might be provided by a vaccination certificate. For, according to a report this morning in the Irish Times, as far as the promoters of […]
Despite Taoiseach Michéal Martin urging everyone to move on from the issue, ZapponeGate (along with Cronygate and Merriongate) shows no sign of slowing down on social media. In some ways, it’s like a boil being lanced. The anger and frustration felt at the hypocrisy of the chattering classes in regard to the lockdown is evident. We […]
Alice, of Wonderland fame, said she could imagine six impossible things before breakfast. Leo Varadkar can imagine at least one when he finds himself in a tight corner even if the ‘corner’ in question is an outdoor dining area of a plush Dublin hotel. It certainly took some imagination, as well as chutzpah, to scramble together […]
“You couldn’t make it up”, they say, when something ridiculous is reported in the media. As ridiculous government decisions go, one would struggle to find anything more ridiculous than the decision in 2018 to pay GP’s €450 per patient for early pregnancy abortions (requiring an average of 4 GP visits), at the same time as […]
There is certainly an element of “Oh, look over there!” about the mainstream Woodward/Bernstein exposé of people having the craic in the Healy Rae pub in Kilgarvan. And of course, predictably enough, the nodding donkeys have lit upon Danny Healy-Rae as an example of one of the Deplorables intent on killing us all in our […]
Stunning figures here, courtesy of the Iona Institute, which has been commissioning regular polling on Mass attendance throughout the pandemic: A new Amarach Research poll commissioned by The Iona Institute shows that 46pc of Catholics who were going to Mass on a regular basis before the pandemic began last year have returned to Mass since […]
Nobody told Micheál Martin that Katherine Zappone was to get the big job in New York until it arrived at Cabinet, in the form of a behind the scenes agreement amongst Fine Gael Ministers, and the hapless Taoiseach was bounced into going along with it. In the immediate aftermath, he had the look of a […]
It would seem that the lead transgender activist NGO, Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI), has found itself in spot of bother. According to a piece in The Burkean based on an internal email sent by the Health Services Executive to TENI CEO Sara Philips on June 11, the HSE said “may have to freeze funding” […]