On Saturday, 17 August last, I came across a Tweet from an Owen James in the UK which referred to a “blatant premeditated attack” by far-right activists, in which Mr. James alleged he was seriously assaulted. I do not know Mr. James so I cannot comment on whether this claim is true or not. However, this Tweet was shared […]
Sometimes when RTÉ News covers a protest it deems worthy, the camera work gives the game away. Amnesty’s cringe-worthy disco to protest against Mike Pence was a case in point this week. Despite plenty of advance notice of this marvellous opportunity to protest the awfulness of the Trump administration, almost no-one bothered to show up. […]
What will it take for modern feminists to give women some credit? Could they quit putting their own gender down for once and celebrate how great we are? Today’s feminists do us all a disservice by denying our achievements and successes to paint us as the underdog sex. You’d be forgiven for thinking we were a bunch of […]
It is a well-known and almost universally agreed fact in Ireland, or at least amongst the Irish establishment, that if you oppose the Irish Government’s Brexit strategy you are, de-facto, a soup-taking, west Brit, Boris-loving Tory who hates his own country and wants to see it ruined. The backstop, at this point, is holy writ. […]
Parents are expressing concern about a sex-ed course taught in schools around the country. Aids West, who run the sex-ed course, declined to provide a list of schools in which they operate. #gript
So far, no cause has been publicly announced for the fire that engulfed a parking garage in Douglas Shopping Centre at the weekend, which at present has left 100 vehicles stranded in the facility, many of them completely destroyed: MORNING AFTER: Crews are still at scene this morning in Douglas making up equipment and monitoring […]
I am not going to begin this piece with multiple qualifications, or unnecessary statements that I believe in the value and contributions of women. The message in the title and the vitality of women are self-evident. Women are great. But I am not a woman, and neither are half the population. I am sick, to […]
According to a new report issued this month by property website Daft.ie, the number of properties available for rent in the Republic of Ireland is now at its lowest level ever recorded (in a time series starting in 2006), while average rents in Dublin are now double what they were in 2011. These are just […]
Last week I wrote an article about the recent media response to a group of students, including myself, attending the Young America’s Foundation National Conservative Student Conference in Washington DC. In that article, I spoke about the media and political intolerance towards opinions or beliefs that stray outside the ‘acceptable’ set of ‘progressive’ left-wing social/economic […]
Only someone completely out of touch with reality could declare, as Simon Harris did, that cutting payments to people with disabilities is about equity. Yet that’s exactly what Minister Harris said when he axed the training grant those who attend rehabilitative training (RT). His clinching argument was that not everyone with disabilities received the payment […]
I’m currently sitting in a cafe beside a sea of breastfeeding mums, chatting away to each other, enjoying precious bonding time with their babies. It’s magical and because it’s so fleeting, I feel a pang of nostalgia, remembering the wonderful ten months I spent feeding my now four-year-old daughter. Suffice to say, they are minding […]
My colleague David Mullins revealed this morning that the National Women’s Council of Ireland received more from a state scheme to support groups that helped the disadvantaged than any other group did – despite the fact that the NWCI provides no services to the public. This should not be a surprise. The entire NGO sector […]