We have just lived through yet another week in Ireland which demonstrates that our politics is now composed of nothing more than dueling accusations of racism and misogyny, which cover up the fact that our politicians and parties ultimately agree on basically everything. In the wake of the numerous Brian Stanley controversies, Tainaiste Leo Varadkar […]
Spare a moment, in this festive season, to mourn an old friend that’s missing in action. At this time of year, we’re usually joined by one of our old friends, the Orthomyxoviridae – better known as the viruses that cause Winter Flu. But this year? No sign of them. LATEST FIGURES SHOW that no cases […]
With the Citizenship referendum of 2004 again in the news, as the political “elite” plan ways to overturn that democratic decision, the current statistics available are worth looking at in the context of where the asylum process currently stands. A request under the Freedom of Information Act elicited the following data from the International Protection […]
The Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference has released a statement claiming people who refuse to take the Covid-19 vaccine could risk the lives of others.
Just when you think the woke Irish establishment has reached its lowest point, someone like Labour’s Aodhán O’Riordan always comes out of nowhere to prove you wrong. Their newest target? Teenage boys at school – a.k.a the most dangerous demographic in all of society. As reported in the Irish Times yesterday: “Single gender schools are […]
Jobpath is described by government as an approach to “employment activation” which caters mainly for people who are long-term unemployed (12 months or more) to assist them to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. Depending on where you live in the country it is delivered by one of two private companies – Seetec Limited […]
The Irish Times’s bad reporting on our abortion regime overlooks harm to women, the efficacy of the 3-day waiting period, and the horror of late-term abortions The Irish Times (with the honourable exception of columnist Breda O’Brien) seems determined to find no fault with our new abortion regime, other than perhaps that it does not go far […]
The National Disability Authority (NDA) was established twenty years ago to provide relevant, evidenced based information to key stakeholders so that national policy could be developed and implemented to ensure people with disabilities lived the lives of their choosing. However, a report published by the NDA in the past week raises serious questions about the […]
Call me a sucker for punishment, but this is a question that’s been on my mind since Social Democrat TD Holly Cairns raised this issue yesterday: The “ridiculous” lack of maternity leave for politicians is a major barrier to women entering public life, it has been claimed. Social Democrat TD Holly Cairns is pushing to […]
It’s not hard to guess where the blame will fall for yesterday’s figures showing that, overwhelmingly, the wealthiest young people still dominate the most elite college places. As I remarked to Niamh when we were doling out the stories for today, “wealth finds a way”: Students from the wealthiest families continue to retain a firm […]
The alternative of excluding unvaccinated citizens from day-to-day activities based on a small chance that the 95%-effective vaccine doesn’t work is about as divisive and intolerant as any policy could be.
In the five years from 2014 to 2018, a total of 4,821 Deportation Orders were imposed on non-EU nationals found to be illegally residing within the state. Of course, this does not mean that anything like that number then went on to leave the state. Because while Deportation Orders do create a legal obligation […]