On October 7th, last year, the Irish Times delivered its damning verdict on the British Government’s handling of Covid-19. “Fantasy as Policy”, it pronounced. “What is clear”, the paper said, “is that the British prime minister has not lost his capacity for nonsense – his speech was full of Churchillian bluster and exceptionalism about the […]
After a long string of humiliations regarding vaccine supply, and then political chaos following the erection of a customs border on the island of Ireland, the EU has now desperately attempted to back-track by revoking Article 16. But is this really enough for the bloc to save face? The past few years have not been […]
Whenever you see something this tin-eared, there are really only two possibilities worth considering. The first is that the Labour Party, and its advisers, live in such a bubble that they genuinely don’t know how weird and odd it seems to normal people to assert that periods and menstruation are a gender-neutral experience. The second? […]
The headline most other media outlets seemed to take away from the Taoiseach’s comments yesterday was that lockdown would go on past March 5th. But that’s not really news, is it? Most of us had guessed that already. No, the far more significant news was in the small print: Micheál Martin said he did not […]
Another glorious victory for the European Union, was the subtext of Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen’s tweet yesterday claiming that the EU had secured an extra nine million vaccines from AstraZenica for the first quarter of this year. The announcement came, of course, just a few days after the EU had to engage in […]
More than 2100 doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals have signed an open letter strongly opposing a bill which seeks to legalise assisted suicide in Ireland. The letter, organised by Irish Healthcare Professionals for Dignity in Living and Dying, was published ahead of submissions being made to the Oireachtas Justice Committee which is examining a […]
The decidedly unWoke American socialist Upton Sinclair once declared: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” Sinclair wrote scathingly about conditions in the Chicago slaughterhouses of the early 20th century. His adage might equally perhaps be applied to some of those who have […]
“Booooooo!”, I hear you say. And indeed, this intervention by the Tánaiste yesterday won’t be very popular amongst those with republican instincts, who lie awake at night dreaming of the day when the Wolfe Tones song about being a nation once again can be sung lustily and loudly throughout the land. But hasn’t he…… got […]
Not, just so we’re clear, €47,700 for every taxpayer in Ireland. Not €47,700 for every adult. Not €47,700 for every citizen. Nope. Forty seven thousand, seven hundred euros for every man, woman, and child resident inside the 26 counties of the Republic of Ireland: The Government finances can absorb a forecast 17 per cent spike […]
In a move that will surely unsettle those who are already concerned about civil rights intrusions, mobile phone carrier Three has confirmed that it is now providing data about its customers’ movements to the government so that it can monitor compliance with the Covid-19 lockdown. The movement data – where and when people travelled – of some 2.4 million […]
Amidst all of the panic induced by the moves towards restricting travel to Ireland from overseas, several things appear to catch the attention. RTÉ’s Primetime made a big show of “calling out” people arriving back to Dublin on flights having either been on holidays as tourists, or as Spanish students and others who live here and […]
Many people in Ireland would be shocked to imagine that we have been conditioned by the media into hating a major part of our own culture & nation’s history. But nonetheless, that is exactly what has happened. In the last year or two, it’s become increasingly clear that Irish culture is under attack from the […]