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To all those cheering on the 2021 purge, hear the account of a previous target before you pile in, and remember it might be you some day.
The long-awaited Final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes was released this week. The report is 2,685 pages long, so many who seemed to have pre-written pieces ready go the day of the report might not have had time to absorb or digest its contents. Much of the commentary around the […]
In many ways, this is completely remarkable: NEW @ABC Wash Post poll: 54% say Pres Trump should be charged criminally with inciting a riot for having encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol. He’s leaving office with a 38% job approval rating; 60% disapproval More from @LangerResearch https://t.co/nSVXCDI1bs — Karen Travers (@karentravers) January 15, […]
Good news from Fine Gael, everybody: Ireland is presently coming second in a snail race: It's official: Ireland is the 2nd HIGHEST in the European Union for #Covid19 vaccinations. Thank you to all the amazing frontline workers who are making this happen. pic.twitter.com/WNKOhs0nkl — Fine Gael (@FineGael) January 14, 2021 To get to the ranking […]
Shelby Steele was born in Chicago to a black truck driver and white social worker, and, as a child he accompanied his parents to many civil rights marches and rallies. He is now an acclaimed author and race-relations scholar – and he argues, in a gripping new documentary, What Killed Michael Brown, that the Civil […]
A novel argument for chipping away at legalised abortion in the United States is catching on amongst the judiciary: abortion should not be used for eugenic purposes. Last week the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit struck down Arkansas Acts 493 and 619. The first attempted to ban abortions after 18 weeks because it is […]
On Wednesday of this week the Dáil will debate the final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes. The Report has now been published in full but not before some of the findings were leaked over the weekend . A move which has angered the Minister for Children, Roderick O’Gorman. The […]
Timmy Dooley, who signed off on the FF policy document on future funding of broadcasting, print and digital media, told me in conversation last week that taxpayer money would not be made available to “little organs of hate”. He would not be drawn on the Irish media outlets he had in mind. It raises a great […]
The population of the Republic of Ireland, these days, is about four million, nine hundred and four thousand. So, vaccinating four million people by September means vaccinating in excess of 80% of the population. Given that vaccinated people, in theory, at least, don’t get Covid symptoms, or need to go to hospital, that should mean […]
Abolishing the Angelus on RTE is one of those perennials that pops up in the pre-occupations of Ireland’s dominant cultural class a few times a year. Sometimes it’s in silly season, when the press are looking for a story, but more commonly it’s when news stories about the nation’s past surface which tend to inflame […]
One of the most important voices in the international pro life movement, Obianuju Ekeocha, has had something to say about the current purge of social media inspired by the Big Tech/Democrat taking of the White House. Referring to Twitter’s banning of large numbers of critical voices which has seen the closure or blocking of a […]