Pat Finucane’s family were sitting down to Sunday dinner at their home in North Belfast on February 12th, 1989 when their door was smashed in by masked loyalist killers wielding sledgehammers. The gunmen then shot Finucane fourteen times in front of his wife Geraldine and his terrified children. He was 39 years old. Since that […]
What’s the world coming to when a senior Sinn Fein TD can’t even gloat about the deaths of 18 young men without people getting all upset? Sinn Fein TD Brian Stanley was all in favour of praising the Warrenpoint ambush just two days ago. But now? Mary Lou has had a word, and Brian is…. […]
“The issue of indemnity”, Taoiseach Micheál Martin told reporters last week, “is under discussion”. If you’re not familiar with what he meant by the issue of indemnity, here’s a quick refresher: In August, media outlets reported that vaccine makers were lobbying the EU for an indemnity in return for providing the vaccine: The European pharmaceutical […]
The latest and most serious attempt to overturn the referendum which overwhelmingly approved changes to the criteria governing eligibility for Irish citizenship in 2004 comes before the Seanad on Wednesday. There have been, as we have noted before, several other Private Members Bills tabled by communist TDs, but this one in the name of Labour […]
If you needed any more evidence of the lockdown being catastrophic for society and human life, it was provided this weekend by one of the Government’s own top experts. Professor Risteárd Ó’Laoide, the National Director of the National Cancer Control Programme, has said the impact of covid-19 on referrals for lung, breast, and prostate cancer […]
Peadar Tóibín’s Aontú have drawn level with the Labour Party on 4% in the latest Ireland Thinks opinion poll for the Mail on Sunday, which also shows that about 20-25% of Irish voters would not take a Covid vaccine. More on the vaccine below, but first, here are the party figures: 🚨Poll🚨Ireland Thinks / Mail […]
Hoo boy: 🚨POLL🚨 Sunday Business Post / Red C % who believe that the COVID-19 vaccine should be made compulsory for people to take: All Adults: 47% By Age:18-34: 42%35-54: 41%55+: 59% By Party: FG: 61%FF: 59%GP: 43%I/O: 38%SF: 38% 29th November 2020 — Ireland Votes | #Vote2024 (@Ireland_Votes) November 29, 2020 The numbers rise […]
The links and associations between health care professionals, health care organisations and the bio-pharmaceutical industry has long been a source of deep concern. This is perfectly understandable. When we go to see our GP, pharmacist, dentist or hospital doctor, we have every right to expect that they will be acting in our personal interest as […]
We’re going to let you have turkey but there’ll be absolutely no hugging, says Nphet and their fellow Scrooges. ‘Maybe one glass of wine but inspectors will be calling to check on the seating”. It’s all for our own good, the government agrees, though Golfgate and and then RTEgate has led many to question whether […]
It is not unfair to say about Irish Times columnist Roisin Ingle that she is a doctrinaire progressive left winger on almost every issue under the sun. Those of you who followed the abortion referendum, for example, will recall that she was one of the leading campaigners, in the media, for a yes vote. To […]
The Newstalk journalist whose reporting brought a false story about teachers in Presentation College Carlow to national attention has completely removed all reference to the story from her twitter account. Kacey O’Riordan, an IMRO-award winning reporter who works with Newstalk, Today FM, 98FM, and Spin 103.8FM, tweeted on Tuesday that “female students at a Carlow […]
Last weekend’s Bloody Sunday commemoration by the GAA was a nice reminder of the GAA’s enmeshment in the warp and weft of Ireland’s history. The events of Bloody Sunday 1920, and the name of Michael Hogan are part of the lore of Ireland and it was refreshing to see the GAA commemorate the event and its […]