Richard Boyd-Barrett, has declared a new far-Left crusade in the Dáil, and this time it’s against exams and the concept of “competition” itself. Speaking earlier this week, Boyd-Barrett said that “the problem starts with the Leaving Cert itself.” “It is fundamentally perpetuating an inequality and a hierarchy and limiting access to education in a way […]
“Asylum seekers”, you might note, is not a phrase that ever appears these days, in most of the media. And it certainly does not appear in Government news releases. Instead, the new, PR-friendly term is “international protection applicants”. And said international protection applicants got good news yesterday, courtesy of Roderic O’Gorman and Simon Harris: Today, […]
Hairdressers will be closed until May, the Taoiseach said yesterday, meaning that those of us who survive lockdown will emerge, eventually, into the sunshine, with hair and beards flowing like the cavemen of yore. But that’s only if we survive what NPHET says is the latest “dangerous moment” of the never-ending pandemic: Ireland could be […]
There’s been a lot of attention given, in the lockdown-sceptical parts of the Irish internet, in recent days, to the results of a freedom of information request made by a website called freepress.ie. Here’s what they say: Freepress.ie can exclusively reveal that Irish hospitals were never under strain throughout 2020, based on newly released official […]
The preliminary agenda for the annual conference of the Teachers Union of Ireland has been released, and with it, a list of motions that the Union is set to debate when it gathers for that conference later this spring. Top of the agenda is motion 177, introduced by the Dublin branch of the TUI, which […]
The Irish Bishops’ Conference has criticised the inertia of the government in addressing concerns of the religious in Ireland – a watershed moment as up to now, the Bishops have instructed priests across the country to adhere to Government restrictions. The Bishops have collectively, publicly, called on the Government to ease the restrictions on public […]
‘Facts tell, stories sell,’ according to the advertising maxim. Leaving the question of whether an advertising maxim should have anything to do with news or journalism, clearly in contemporary times, it does. In recent Irish history, for example, we can trace the repeal of the Eighth Amendment to the long-running campaign by activists to tell […]
The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment has just released its statistics on the number of work permits issued to Irish companies for February 2021. Despite the Covid crisis, there has been little change in the numbers of people arriving in Ireland to take up jobs when huge numbers of people already here are dependent […]
Today, the Sinn Fein Spokesperson on Children, Kathleen Funchion will move the second stage debate on the Civil Registration (Right of Adoptees to Information) (Amendment) Bill 2021. As Deputy Funchion has already made clear when the Bill was formally introduced on 17 February, “Its simple objective is to give every adoptee the right to […]
Thank you to Gript’s Gary Kavanagh for helping with the research and writing of this article. RTÉ is the only Irish member of a left-wing climate activism group which aims to “transform” the media. But how can you trust an organisation to tell you the truth when it’s siding with activists instead of scientists? CCN, […]
Look, Leo, some of us knew this already. Apparently, though, other people needed to be told again: “There is a misconception that Fine Gael is a conservative party when it has in fact played a “crucial role” in advancing equality and in particular gender equality, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said. Noting that women have often […]
Unbiased journalism, and critical inquiry is absent in reporting of lockdown protests ‘When a fallacy is left unchallenged, it becomes strengthened in the average mind as the absolute truth’. This is something the mainstream media in Ireland know only too well. Following the anti-lockdown protests in Stephen’s Green and the ensuing scramble to denounce the […]