Anyone who knows of Fine Gael is aware that the party’s brand is based largely on being a laissez-faire, pro-business, low tax party. In 2018, then-Taoiseach Leo Varadkar tried to position his party as the party of tax cuts, making bold promises and big assurances of cuts for years to come. And that certainly sounds […]
Make no mistake about it: age is something which comes to us all, and is certainly not something to be mocked. It’s part of the circle of life. As cringe as I find my parents’ taste in entertainment, no doubt my future children will find me cringe for even using the word “cringe,” which by […]
If there’s one thing that the West’s mainstream media is certain of, it’s this: that Donald Trump is a puppet of Vladimir Putin, and a stooge for the Russian government. This is a talking point which has been repeated ad infinitum, not only by the media, but by celebrities, and even Trump’s political opponents to […]
This report by SIMI is a fascinating document, if you’re interested in policy, and it systematically takes the Government’s declared policy apart, in an authoritative, and convincing way.
You may have thought 2021 was a year of extreme pressure, but geostrategic conflict in 2022 represents a moment of even greater tension
The idea that the west has some moral duty to abandon millions of people to Russian overlordship and bullying just to keep the Russians happy is absurdist.
Jan Karski tried to tell the world’s leaders about the Holocaust, but they didn’t want to believe him.
As NPHET advises that Ireland should drop masking rules, a fierce debate as broken out between Ireland’s favourite scientist and himself. Yesterday, in the wake of the new advice, ISAG’s Professor Luke O’Neill tweeted that “masks are still useful even if everyone isn’t wearing one.” Remember – masks are still useful even if everyone isn’t […]
Cynical
on the substance, Willie O’Dea is right: Fianna Fáil has become, in Government, functionally indistinguishable from Fine Gael.
The raw truth of the matter is that a great many progressives now simply do not believe that basic democratic rights should apply to their opponents.
According to People Before Profit’s Bríd Smith, the pandemic is “not over” and we need another 4 weeks of masking to stop the spread. These lads must be robbing a urology clinic, because they are clearly taking the piss. The comments were made this week on Virgin Media’s the Tonight Show, when presenter Daniel McConnell […]