A People Before Profit TD has called on the government to use emergency powers to forcibly seize private property to house Ukrainian refugees. The comments were made yesterday in the Dáil by Richard Boyd Barrett TD during a discussion on the rapidly depleting housing options for Ireland’s Ukrainian arrivals. Richard Boyd Barrett calls on the […]
Selective outrage.
Those of us old enough and foolish enough to recall the abortion referendum of 2018 in Ireland will be familiar with the concept of “Gilead” and the ubiquity, in that campaign, of Handmaids Tale costumes. Drawn from the pages of Margaret Attwood’s masterpiece feminist novel, Gilead is a fictional dystopian world where women of reproductive age […]
This week, a draft opinion from US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was leaked, which would – if its core remains as part of the final ruling – overturn Roe v Wade, the 1973 decision which found that abortion was a Constitutional right. Cue absolute consternation, wailing and gnashing of teeth, not just from American abortion campaigners, but […]
Another week, another poorly constructed study people seem to want me to look at.
Meanwhile, in the real world …..
Similar to US
Underwater.
Going Nuclear?
The Northern Irish political system is unique in the western world in that it mandates power sharing.
A recent report on housing in Ireland came up with the startling figure that just 28% of homes built in 2021 were available to ‘ordinary’ purchasers. In that year, most houses and apartments were snapped up by foreign investor funds – kindly assisted by tax breaks from the Irish state – and various social housing […]
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