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Recently Naomi Campbell announced she had become a mother to a baby girl at the age of 50. Everybody thought it was something wonderful to celebrate. Previously, Naomi had said she was not overly worried about the ticking biological clock as science had overtaken nature’s limitations. She is of course far from unique if she […]
An ESRI report published today examines the persistence of poverty among families with children. The report, The Dynamics of Child Poverty: Evidence from the Growing Up in Ireland Survey, is based on thousands of families in two cohorts of those with children aged 0 – 9 years in 1998 and 9 – 18 in 2008. […]
As bad as the new Red C/Sunday Business Post opinion poll is for Fianna Fáil the headline figures are not actually that obviously terrible. 14% nationally is still the stuff of nightmares for the party that has dominated Irish politics since the 1930’s, but it actually represents a slight increase on the previous version of […]
Look at the headline on this RTE News story from yesterday: RTE’s headline claims that Professor Luke O’Neill has said that it “might be time to slow down the re-opening”. There is only one problem, and that is as follows: O’Neill said nothing of the sort. What did he say? Well, you have to dig […]
The Sunday Times, the leading newspaper in the UK, has launched a campaign to end the ban on assisted suicide. It has thrown its weight behind a private member’s bill in the House of Lords introduced by Baroness Meacher, who is also the chair of Dignity in Dying. At the top of the page is the […]
On March 4, 2010, The Economist ran one of its most memorable covers: a completely black page, except for a pair of tiny pink shoes with frilly bows the bottom. The headline was “Gendercide: what happened to 100 million baby girls?” Good question. The answer is that they were aborted or killed, mainly in China and India, […]
A law student in a Scottish university is facing disciplinary action after saying in an online seminar about transgender issues that women were born with female genitals and that the difference in physical strength between men and women is a fact. Lisa Keogh, a 29-year-old mother of two boys, is in her final year at […]
This Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 202 is perhaps the most far-reaching piece of legislation to come before the current Dáil. My colleagues and I, in the Rural Independent Group, are fully committed to improving the environment and reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. However, we believe that in pursuing these noble objectives, […]
Spinning, a fitness class that had taken the gym industry by storm, may just be on its death bed due to Covid-19 regulations. And thank God for that. Why am I happy with the potential decline of Spinning classes in gyms? Spinning, or more importantly cycling is not an adequate foundation of fitness due to […]
Ireland has been giving millions in foreign aid for years to Turkey, China and others, to promote the “empowerment of women” and climate change activism. Yes, really. According to the figures from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland is set to spend a total of €868 million euros on overseas aid in 2021 – a […]
Tim wrote yesterday about the wider media hypocrisy around the lab-leak story (the idea that the Coronavirus was accidentally released from a science laboratory in Wuhan, China, rather than occurring naturally in a wet market) but this particular element of the global about-face on the idea is worth some dedicated discussion: “Facebook will no longer […]