The threat that emerging infectious diseases pose to global health and the economy, trade, and tourism never ceases. Pandemics can spread rapidly around the world due to international aviation and transport. As of March 2021, a novel form of pneumonia that first emerged in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019 and has since been […]
There was, across much of the media, and politics, widespread condemnation in recent days of the news that a global property firm, Round Hill Capital, was set to purchase most of the homes in a new 170-home development in Kildare. The frustration amongst a lot of people on hearing this news was perfectly understandable, if […]
This image of a Red Army soldier in Berlin in May 1945 was tweeted as part of its celebration of May Day by the youth wing of Sinn Féin. No pasaron. pic.twitter.com/Lbtng876P9 — Ógra Shinn Féin (@Ogra_SF) May 1, 2021 (Incidentally, the original photos was altered to hide the fact that the soldier was […]
The way Tesla has promoted driver-assist features as “Full Self-Driving” and “Autopilot” is misleading
A new chapter in the Reproductive Revolution. A polyamorous “throuple” in British Columbia has succeeded in a legal battle to have all of their names recorded on their baby’s birth certificate. Bill, Eliza and Olivia have lived as a “triad” since 2017. The baby, Clarke, was conceived through sexual intercourse between Bill and Eliza. But […]
Among the terms you may have heard during discourse on what a ‘post Covid’ society might entail is the idea of Social Credit. This has been referenced in regard to the proposed use of vaccination certificates, but also linked to the concept as it is applied in China. The first thing to be clear about […]
Curiouser and curiouser. The Central Statistics Office has now issued an updated analysis of deaths in Ireland and they’ve reported excess deaths during the Covid crisis as in a range “between 2,034 and 2,338”. This means that, even allowing for the fact that the analysis covers a period of time which is straddling two winter peaks […]
Following the raising of the issue by Aontú leader Peadar Toíbín in the Dáil again, An Taoiseach Micheal Martin has finally agreed to meet with families of the victims of the loyalist Glenanne Gang. The gang operated mostly during the 1970s and is believed to have murdered over 120 people. Almost all of them were […]
It might have been the weight of expectation that a heavy-hitter like Piers Morgan was going to tackle the cancel culture and shrieking social media narration that has enveloped society which has left me feeling more than a little disappointed. I am not necessarily a Piers Morgan fan but I don’t find him objectionable […]
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has issued a very stark warning that Catholic schools are no longer welcome in modern Ireland. Despite a Constitutional provision that the Government must provide for the education of children, it is clear that the current administration thinks that it has a monopoly on the content of what children get taught because […]
Completely white from head to foot, a troupe of haz-suited figures march in a column through an empty city. The city is lit up with flashing florescence, indicating a frenetic hive of energy, but the ghostly emptiness tells a different lie. The column are masked and anonymous and, reminiscent of Star Wars storm troopers, march […]
When former Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy came out in support of “co-living” apartment developments, he was not surprisingly subjected to widespread criticism. The notion that people would be paying high rents and not even be guaranteed their own cooking and bathroom facilities invited comparisons to older, but cheaper, tenement accommodation. The backlash convinced his successor […]