What do we learn from comparing the response and experience of different countries to Covid? Nothing useful I would argue. Perhaps when it’s all over we can start comparing and asking who made the best decisions, but this is not over; we aren’t even at half time. Which countries’ leaders have made the best decisions? […]
The cost to the HSE of reimbursing medicines and drug treatments now stands at about €2.5 billion annually. By way of contrast; back in 2014 the annual bill was about €1.8 billion. A large proportion of our present costs are routinely attributed to the growing population of older persons. But this is, at best, only […]
A grassroots group calling itself “Health Freedom Ireland” has raised over 22 thousand euros in less than a day as part of a campaign it is waging against the “mandatory” wearing of facemasks, as required by the Government in a number of locations. Health Freedom Ireland’s fundraiser was written by barrister Tracey O’Mahony (who has […]
There has, naturally, been quite a bit of chatter in recent days about the despicable, racist attack carried out by a gang of Dublin gurriers on an innocent east Asian woman last week. If you haven’t seen it, here it is. In this case, there is no doubt whatever that racism was a primary factor […]
John McIntyre had an interesting piece in the Connacht Tribune on Thursday. He was comparing the packed beaches at Salthill during the brief heat wave to the restrictions placed on GAA and other sports. The reductio ad absurdum of all this was perhaps the Garda enforced prevention of people climbing Croagh Patrick on Reek Sunday […]
The problem with a charge of racism is that few people are prepared to challenge the strength of the evidence or the good faith of the party making the allegation. The media tend to report the incident in a way that is sympathetic to the ‘victim’. Sometimes, they make no pretence at all of sitting […]
This is not Minneapolis. This is not Portland. This is Dublin. And this happened yesterday. Last month we had a Black Lives Matter march through the city. Last week we had our president sign into law new powers for vulture funds and banks. Yesterday we had black people dragged out of their home by men […]
Having spent several days ignoring the violence in Balbriggan last weekend that included the burning of a house, Sinn Féin has been forced to respond to other people breaking the conspiracy of silence (that includes the national broadcaster) on the issue. Louise O’Reilly the Sinn Féin TD for Fingal has come under strong pressure from […]
The recent escalation of violence in Balbriggan has highlighted the absolute plague that is anti-social behaviour in our communities. Local Fianna Fail TD, Darragh O’Brien, has now acknowledged that events are rapidly getting out of control with entire shopping centres effectively becoming no-go areas for local residents. Now that he is the Minister for Housing […]
Serious questions have been raised about a conference call between the First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill, and the Beijing Consul General Zhang Meifang, where it is alleged both politicians indicated support for the current repression of Hong Kong by the authoritarian government in China. The Consulate claimed that during the […]
A funny thing just happened in Portland. One of the crazy ideas of the stunningly dishonest leftists just caught on. The “Wall of Moms” looks to be a winner because it repurposes the instinctive protectiveness of our species towards children, and turns it into a political weapon. Paedophrasty (a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb) […]
A commitment to establish a Citizens’ Assembly on education was a core feature of the recent general election manifesto of the Green Party. This proposal was based on its belief that there is a fundamental “need to re-evaluate the outcomes of education” and to bring about “structural changes” at all levels of our education […]