It would seem that the lead transgender activist NGO, Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI), has found itself in spot of bother. According to a piece in The Burkean based on an internal email sent by the Health Services Executive to TENI CEO Sara Philips on June 11, the HSE said “may have to freeze funding” […]
In the middle of the European Cup, one wisecrack commented on the surprising health of the Swedish football team who managed to field a full 11 despite the reported plague winds howling through each and every Swedish hamlet. AdzStats???? ????????/???????? on Twitter: “I’m confused. Watching Sweden vs Ukraine, but I’m not sure how it’s possible […]
Last October, the Dáil voted to initiate legislation to legalise assisted suicide and normalise euthanasia in Ireland. Shorn of language that might spook many TDs and cause voters to recoil, the Private Members Bill was sponsored by the radical left-wing People Before Profit/Solidary alliance. The vote was taken late in the evening, mid-week, and amidst […]
The hashtag #NoThankYou has been trending worldwide all day. Here’s why. The Olympic Games have attracted a new kind of controversy this year as women faced what many of them saw as unfair competition from transgender athletes who were born male. One of those athletes is New Zealand weightlifter, Laurel Hubbard, who at 43 years old, would normally […]
One of the most baffling things about the Katherine Zappone cock-up (let’s call it what it is) is that it ever got this far. Politicians spend millions of our euros every year on a veritable army of special advisors, many of them ex-journalists, precisely so that they can be advised how to avoid banana skins […]
For many, the recent scandal involving the appointment of former minister Katherine Zappone to the post of UN special envoy sums up all that is wrong with Irish politics. At this point, the choreography surrounding the appointment isn’t clear but some things are. Zappone, who was unceremoniously dumped by the Irish electorate in 2020 is […]
Politicians and Governments have had it in for cash for quite a while, for a whole range of reasons, but one above all others: It is, by and large, untraceable. This makes it perfect if you want to hide your wealth from the Government, or engage in crime, or avoid taxes like VAT, or do […]
Speaking to Portlaoise County Council personnel during his tenure as President of the European Parliament, Pat Cox lauded the EU’s commitment to liberal democracy and its institutions. By contrast, he described in graphic terms the charade that was China’s National Peoples’ Congress. It was, he observed, a bloated assembly of ‘yacking donkeys’ whose brays might be heard […]
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Tonight RTÉ, the publicly-funded broadcaster, will celebrate the repeal of the right to life of helpless preborn babies and cheer along with the ghouls in Dublin Castle who did conga lines in delight at abortion. That’s not how they’re selling it obviously. A ‘abortion movie night’ might not get as many views. Instead they’re using all […]
Perhaps An Taoiseach Micheál Martin now understands what Groucho Marx meant when he said that he would not want to be a member of a club that would have him as a member. I am thinking here in the context of a dinner reportedly hosted by for former Minister, now newly appointed Special Envoy for […]
If you go on to the HSE’s information page about abortion services in Ireland, and into the section advising people about what to expect after an abortion, one of the first lines you will read advises you that “around 2 or 3 out of every 100 people who have an abortion at less than 9 […]