Promoting marriage is likely the most successful way to promote more births in Asia, according to recent research by Mengni Chen, a research scientist at the University of Cologne in Germany and University of Louvain in Belgium, and Paul Yip, the chair professor (population health) at the University of Hong Kong. 2020 estimates continue to place the […]
The decidedly unWoke American socialist Upton Sinclair once declared: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” Sinclair wrote scathingly about conditions in the Chicago slaughterhouses of the early 20th century. His adage might equally perhaps be applied to some of those who have […]
“Booooooo!”, I hear you say. And indeed, this intervention by the Tánaiste yesterday won’t be very popular amongst those with republican instincts, who lie awake at night dreaming of the day when the Wolfe Tones song about being a nation once again can be sung lustily and loudly throughout the land. But hasn’t he…… got […]
Not, just so we’re clear, €47,700 for every taxpayer in Ireland. Not €47,700 for every adult. Not €47,700 for every citizen. Nope. Forty seven thousand, seven hundred euros for every man, woman, and child resident inside the 26 counties of the Republic of Ireland: The Government finances can absorb a forecast 17 per cent spike […]
In a move that will surely unsettle those who are already concerned about civil rights intrusions, mobile phone carrier Three has confirmed that it is now providing data about its customers’ movements to the government so that it can monitor compliance with the Covid-19 lockdown. The movement data – where and when people travelled – of some 2.4 million […]
Amidst all of the panic induced by the moves towards restricting travel to Ireland from overseas, several things appear to catch the attention. RTÉ’s Primetime made a big show of “calling out” people arriving back to Dublin on flights having either been on holidays as tourists, or as Spanish students and others who live here and […]
Many people in Ireland would be shocked to imagine that we have been conditioned by the media into hating a major part of our own culture & nation’s history. But nonetheless, that is exactly what has happened. In the last year or two, it’s become increasingly clear that Irish culture is under attack from the […]
A company belonging Jim Breen, the one-time star of RTE’s “Secret Millionaire” programme, owes small investors tens of thousands of euros, and has failed to discharge the debts for eight years, and is facing legal action from some investors who believe themselves to have been duped, Gript can reveal. Pulse Learning, a company which provides […]
Oh, Ian: “A DUP MP has faced criticism from parliamentary counterparts after linking the IRA with Catholicism. Ian Paisley’s reference to the sectarian murder campaign by the “Catholic IRA” drew critical responses from fellow members of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee. Mr Paisley was questioning Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis on legacy issues and was […]
Yesterday the Dáil spent two hours debating a Private Members Bill brought forward by the Independent TD from Donegal, Thomas Pringle. The Bill was the Thirty-Seventh Amendment Of The Constitution (Economic, Social And Cultural Rights) Bill 2018. If it is passed it will set in train one of the most radical revisions to the Irish […]
No doubt Bruce Springsteen the great union man is busy as we speak penning a ballad of outrage at the closing down of the Keystone XL pipeline that would have taken oil from Alberta in Canada to the Texas Gulf. It was one of those things Biden had been nailed on during his TV debates […]
When a snail is threatened, it has one response, and one response only. It cannot run, because it is a snail. It has no weapons, because it is a snail. Unlike some tropical animals that can change colour, or confuse or dazzle a predator, a snail has no ability to use subtlety or disguise or […]