Look at the headline on this RTE News story from yesterday: RTE’s headline claims that Professor Luke O’Neill has said that it “might be time to slow down the re-opening”. There is only one problem, and that is as follows: O’Neill said nothing of the sort. What did he say? Well, you have to dig […]
The Sunday Times, the leading newspaper in the UK, has launched a campaign to end the ban on assisted suicide. It has thrown its weight behind a private member’s bill in the House of Lords introduced by Baroness Meacher, who is also the chair of Dignity in Dying. At the top of the page is the […]
On March 4, 2010, The Economist ran one of its most memorable covers: a completely black page, except for a pair of tiny pink shoes with frilly bows the bottom. The headline was “Gendercide: what happened to 100 million baby girls?” Good question. The answer is that they were aborted or killed, mainly in China and India, […]
A law student in a Scottish university is facing disciplinary action after saying in an online seminar about transgender issues that women were born with female genitals and that the difference in physical strength between men and women is a fact. Lisa Keogh, a 29-year-old mother of two boys, is in her final year at […]
This Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 202 is perhaps the most far-reaching piece of legislation to come before the current Dáil. My colleagues and I, in the Rural Independent Group, are fully committed to improving the environment and reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. However, we believe that in pursuing these noble objectives, […]
Spinning, a fitness class that had taken the gym industry by storm, may just be on its death bed due to Covid-19 regulations. And thank God for that. Why am I happy with the potential decline of Spinning classes in gyms? Spinning, or more importantly cycling is not an adequate foundation of fitness due to […]
Ireland has been giving millions in foreign aid for years to Turkey, China and others, to promote the “empowerment of women” and climate change activism. Yes, really. According to the figures from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland is set to spend a total of €868 million euros on overseas aid in 2021 – a […]
Tim wrote yesterday about the wider media hypocrisy around the lab-leak story (the idea that the Coronavirus was accidentally released from a science laboratory in Wuhan, China, rather than occurring naturally in a wet market) but this particular element of the global about-face on the idea is worth some dedicated discussion: “Facebook will no longer […]
The media pummelling of Fine Gael bye-election candidate for Dublin Bay South, James Geoghegan, shows no immediate signs of easing off. One might suspect, given the ferocity of the criticism headed his way, that some elements of the media who had a soft spot for snubbed ex-TD Kate O’Connell are taking a little bit of […]
Brian O’Nolan, otherwise known as Flann O Brien, was at his absolute best when his parody was closest to the bone. In a satirical scene in his best novel (in my opinon), An Béal Bocht (the Poor Mouth), he brings “na Daoine Uasaile” –the educated elite- down from Dublin, to poverty stricken west Kerry, to […]
The real conspiracy theorists are probably those who insisted Covid-19 originated from a wet market.
NGO: The National Women’s Council of Ireland Purpose: Self-appointed spokespersons for every woman in Ireland, including women who were born male. Funding: Almost €1,000,000 (in 2018) per year from the taxpayer, another €90,000 or so from the EU and foreign groups. Just €15,000 in voluntary donations. Expenditure: Some €700,000 on 14 employees, and another €100,000 […]