The Memorandum allows for the selection of teachers from China to teach in Irish schools along with a “language advisor if required
Yes, is the short answer. The longer answer is below, but first, a recap of the disaster that’s unfurled since the US President decided to pull out the remaining American troops: The Taliban captured Afghanistan’s third-largest city and a strategic provincial capital near Kabul on Thursday, further squeezing the country’s embattled government just weeks before […]
Regular readers will remember that earlier in the summer, yours truly regularly pointed to Florida and Texas as examples of places which had abandoned Covid restrictions completely, and were doing just fine. It would be dishonest, then, not to cover the fact that in recent weeks, both states have experienced a mega surge in cases […]
We have to move beyond the insulting caricatures that exist on ‘both sides’ of the debate
Brutality
There was a time, not so long ago, when big tech companies asserted that they were committed to freedom of speech, with reasonable limits on things like inciting hatred, or being overtly racist. If that was true, and all that they did, there would be very little controversy about so-called “big tech censorship”. But of […]
A favourite pastime, writes Margaret Hickey, is Bashing the Church.
We should be thankful for Ministers whose ambition causes them to rat out their colleagues
It should be expected that Ministers do not, in the general course of events, breach the constitution.
Whats the delay?
Communions, say the Government, might “risk lives”
In response to the latest IPCC Report, the Green Party issued a statement on 9th August 2021 saying that, “Time is running out, and we must take action now”. If it seems like the Green Party has been using consistent language about IPCC Reports for many years, that’s because the Green Party has been using consistent language about […]