A Bill published by Westminster will, if passed, mean that a poll on a United Ireland would be almost guaranteed to fail. The Referendums Criteria Bill [HL] 2019-20 is currently before the House of Lords and states that 60% or more of those voting in any border poll within Northern Ireland would have to approve of any proposal for Irish unity. A […]
FG have chosen to go to the country rather than let a no confidence vote in Simon Harris go ahead. FG have seen off a ridiculous number of no confidence motions since their last election, but they’re now on the verge of calling a general election to avoid facing what should be a pretty routine […]
The couple whose baby was aborted after a misdiagnosis of a severe anomaly at the National Maternity Hospital have now been left waiting 10 months for an investigation into their devastating experience. The abortion took place in March 2019, just three months after the procedure was legalised in Ireland. The results of tests seen after […]
The government recently come out to say that it wants to make every restaurant in this country display calories on their menus, probably because with the fall of the Catholic Church in Irish society they’ve decided we need to find new things to feel guilty about. This follows the Government deciding to ban cheap drink, […]
Perhaps the most ironic section of the new deal between the DUP and Sinn Fein to run the British part of Ireland is the following: 25.The parties affirm the need to respect the freedom of all persons in Northern Ireland to choose, affirm, maintain and develop their national and cultural identity I would imagine that getting […]
Over at TheJournal.ie, they’re running one of their regular reader polls, just like Gript, and many other news websites do. Today, it’s on the subject of vaping, and whether so called “sweet flavoured” vaping juices should be banned. Predictably, support for banning the stuff vastly outweighs support for letting people do what they want, 63% […]
“The Dáil will return next week”, announced the Taoiseach this morning, which is slightly different from his position yesterday, which was that the Dáil might not, in fact, return next week, because Fine Gael is so ready for a General Election. It’s good that the national parliament is returning for at least one more week, […]
Last week, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties were excitedly tweeting that they were preparing a report for Simon Harris which could help to ban pro-life vigils at abortion centres. Now they have reported that they have sent their “investigation” to the Minister, and issued a call for immediate action on the issue, seeking to make […]
In his 1845 book The Condition of the Working Class in England, Friedrich Engels excoriated those wealthy philanthropists who placed themselves “before the world as mighty benefactors of humanity when they give back to the plundered victims the hundredth part of what belongs to them.” Back then charity was the preserve of austere Victorians and […]
Peadar Toibin wrote movingly and well on this website yesterday about his principled objections to the Government’s now-cancelled commemoration for members of the Royal Irish Constabulary and Dublin Metropolitan Police: “There are few families in Ireland that do not have mixed heritage. One of my Grandparents was a member of Cumann na mBan, while another […]
In an article in the Irish Times in February 2014[1], Fintan O’Toole reviewed the marriage rates in Ireland on foot of a CSO annual report that had been recently published. He was motivated to write the article in response to a press release from the Iona Institute some months earlier which had ended with the […]
On 27 November 1920 Galway brothers Patrick and Harry Loughnane were arrested on their family farm by the Royal Irish Constabulary’s Auxiliary Division. The men were locally prominent republicans and the RIC was determined to exact revenge on them for an earlier IRA ambush. A few days after their arrest, the Loughnane brothers’ bodies were […]