You can say what you want about Nuns in Ireland. It does not even need to be true.
It’s for the electorate to choose who their MEPs are. Not Fine Gael Senators.
Demographics are destiny
A win
From an economic perspective some of the most interesting things to have happened since the onset of the Ukraine crisis are the least reported. On February 28 the NATO Alliance froze (stole) $300Bn of Dollar denominated assets of the Russian Federation. This was a bad move for the NATO partners. Russia now, and others in […]
Why are we pricing ourselves out of existence?
Life in the Philippines
Right to privacy?
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 […]