Photo credit: Houses of the Oireachtas There are, perhaps, few better jobs in Ireland than being a member of Seanad Eireann. It’s true, of course, that the salary (basic pay of €69,474) is not quite at the level of a TD (basic pay of €98,113), but that ignores quite a few other advantages. For example, […]
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Long standing, and highly respected ex-RTE political editor David Davin Power had a one-word response to this video, yesterday afternoon: “Remarkable”. #China has completed greatest poverty reduction programme in human history, while #Homelessness in the West is at record levels. In last 40 years China bombed nobody or isn't Sanctioning any countries to death – […]
Ann Kioko is a big deal in the Kenyan pro-life community. The 32-year-old is the Africa Campaigns Director for CitizenGo, an international online petition platform pledged to “defend and promote life, family and liberty.” In one of her most stunning successes in this role, she led a campaign which convinced the government of Kenya to suspend the operations of Marie Stopes […]
There have been few major electoral contests in the western democracies in the Age of the Lockdown. The Madrid regional elections held yesterday are the most significant, and were regarded as partly a referendum on how the Covid panic has been handled nationally by the left PSOE/Podemos government. If that was the case, the election […]
The legislation which permits lockdowns was set to expire on 9th November last, but the Oireachtas extended it. It is expected the government will push for it to be extended yet again, beyond the current expiry date of 9th June. That should not happen. The legislation is Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection […]
As an instinctive authoritarian with a healthy degree of scepticism about “the youth”, let me just say this: Is it time for a second look at the Social Democrats? A Dublin councillor says a change to drinking laws, and curfews on younger people, could be a solution to anti-social behaviour. Social Democrats councillor for Howth […]
According to the taxpayer funded lobby group which came up with the idea, “Minimum Unit Pricing” for alcohol is a simple enough idea. Here is what they say: “Minimum unit pricing (MUP) is a “floor price” beneath which alcohol cannot legally be sold and is based on the amount of alcohol in a product, measured […]
RTÉ’s Social Affairs and Religion Correspondent Ailbhe Conneely is going to bless us with a series this week “exploring racism in Ireland.” Well, colour me pink. Why has no one ever tackled this thorny subject up to now? If there is not some sort of bursary or paper hat for this daring initiative, then there […]
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 […]