When Ferdinand Magellan’s galleons sailed into Cebu harbour in the central Philippines in 1521, having sailed from Spain many months earlier, all seemed promisingly hopeful. Soon after arriving, he presented a native chieftain and his chief consort with several mementos of Christian significance – as a reward for their having converted to the novel faith. […]
At least some of the pandemic’s fear-porn can be blamed on the way governments have collated, interpreted and reported key data.
The past ten days has seen an outpouring of shock and grief in regard to the senseless murder of a beautiful and talented young teacher, Ashling Murphy, as she went for a run in Tullamore. While her grief-stricken family sought privacy to mourn Ashling, the dominant voices in the media were largely accusatory against Irish men, […]
The sad thing, of course, is that this story will never, truly, be debunked.
The more secularised society becomes, the more it resembles organised religion.
It paints a picture, whether intentional or not, of a closed shop political class whose cultural and economic similarities overcome any superficial policy differences.
A Chinese economist says yes
He had 15 previous convictions.
Speaking in the Dáil this week, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald decided to give it to the entire nation of Ireland with both barrels, dubbing the country’s past and present “ugly and dangerous.” “The roots of sexism and misogyny run deep,” she said. “The Ireland of religious dogma, that defined women as men’s property, […]
The problem is what we tolerate as a country, repeatedly.
Research from Eurostat has shown that Ireland had the third highest level of rent increases in the EU between 2020 and the third quarter of 2021. Rents here have jumped by almost 70% in that period, compared to an EU average growth of under 20%. Interestingly, house prices have “only” increased by close to the […]
In the aftermath of senseless horror, we reach for easy answers, and ignore the harder truths