On the one hand, everybody’s talking about Stephen Kenny’s job performance after a 1-0 defeat at home to Luxembourg. The team seemed lacklustre, toothless, and lacking in any kind of identity. The best thing you could say about the Irish performance on Saturday night is that all eleven players were definitely there, on the pitch, […]
For some time now, there’s been an ongoing outbreak of baited breath in legal and religious circles as the public try to decipher whether the Irish Government has adopted the policies of Elizabethan England (Popery firmly discouraged) as regards to the holding of masses in Ireland or whether it had gone a step further and […]
Today, the 28th of March 2021 marks the fifth anniversary of the death of Tracey Campbell-Fitzpatrick at St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny. Tracey died from massive blood loss shortly after giving birth to her second child. It is only a short number of weeks since the HSE and the hospital admitted liability in her death […]
In general, sport ought not to be used to further political aims. In a democracy, there are numerous ways in which a person can express their views without using a public platform that has nothing to do with politics or campaigning – such as playing football, or golf or swimming or whatever. There is no need […]
The real controversy surrounds the appalling mismanagement of Covid-19 by both government and opposition. Sunday Griptoon by Brian Doyle #gript
I do not own a conventional smart phone. Instead, I intentionally use a style of flip phone whose rugged case and physical numeric keypad buttons won’t be injured by a drop of three or four feet to a concrete surface. It can receive some texts on its small screen, and I can even send texts […]
Ms. magazine is the unabashed holy grail of feminism. Right on the masthead it says “More than a Magazine, a Movement.” But just what is feminism? Like many buzz words in our pestilential popular culture, the term is used like a sledgehammer to set the parameters of permissible public discourse. It is a set piece of […]
The latest Monthly Homelessness Report from the Department of Housing has shown that almost 1000 (935) families were trapped in Emergency Homeless Accommodation in February. This represents a drop of just 31 families from the situation reported in January when a total of 966 families was recorded. A further breakdown of the numbers for February […]
It is quite incredible to read that sentence back, that the government of a developed country like Ireland kept dossiers on children with autism. It reads like something you would have expected to hear coming out of East Germany. RTÉ Investigates reported that the ‘secret dossiers’ were for use in legal cases. Shane Corr is […]
Looking to ensure that your partner has consented to sex? There’s an app for that—or at least, someone tried to make an app for that. Earlier this year, iConsent was released in Denmark in response to a new law that criminalizes sex without explicit consent. The app allows users to request consent to sexual intercourse within 24 hours to […]
Malta Today carried a very interesting piece on its news site yesterday. It details how in the past few days a group of unprocessed migrants were sent by Malta to this country. According to the report, this was the fourth such relocation from Malta in March. It does not say whether we were also […]
Deaths from heart attacks deaths triple, and cancer deaths are predicted to rise over the next ten years. Yet the lockdowns continue, and the data is ignored. It seems that the main function of the Irish government is to inflate the fear. The latest from our patronising Tánaiste is that we might have to get […]