A company which sold the Irish Government €14million’s worth of Chinese ventilators, which later turned out not to work, is behind a plan to implement a new vaccine passport, Gript can reveal. ROQU, which was only founded in 2017, and had no Irish trading history before being awarded a €14m contract to supply ventilators from […]
An Austrian film called The Trouble with Being Born is winning high praise from critics at film festivals. It received a special jury award at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year. On Rotten Tomatoes, it scores 100% amongst critics. It’s a “hidden gem”, according to Hollywood Reporter. “A powerful and revelatory achievement,” wrote a critic for Screen […]
On Friday, Eirgrid announced that peak electricity demand had been surpassed twice in the previous seven days. It was ironic that this came on the day that the first of two midlands peat stations, Shannonbridge in County Offaly, were officially closed. The remaining peat station at Lough Ree will shut down next Friday. The reasons given by Eirgrid […]
An investigation by Sky News Australia into bias shown by Facebook’s ‘fact-checkers’ has revealed that one of the leading academics assessing who can become a fact-checker for the online platform, Prof Margot Susca, is a liberal activist. She also signed-off on the Irish platform, TheJournal.ie, becoming a supposedly unbiased checker of facts for the platform. Digital […]
And you thought her predecessor, Charlie Flanagan, was bad. Fine Gael Justice Minister, Helen McEntee, has taken to Twitter to boast about the fact that there have been almost no deportations under her watch throughout the covid-19 pandemic, describing this as a “compassionate and pragmatic approach”. “I was glad to speak in the Seanad today […]
We have just lived through yet another week in Ireland which demonstrates that our politics is now composed of nothing more than dueling accusations of racism and misogyny, which cover up the fact that our politicians and parties ultimately agree on basically everything. In the wake of the numerous Brian Stanley controversies, Tainaiste Leo Varadkar […]
Spare a moment, in this festive season, to mourn an old friend that’s missing in action. At this time of year, we’re usually joined by one of our old friends, the Orthomyxoviridae – better known as the viruses that cause Winter Flu. But this year? No sign of them. LATEST FIGURES SHOW that no cases […]
This is one of those stories that an awful lot of people will cheer, with very good reason. Regardless of your views on pornography in general, and whether it should be legal, or illegal, it shouldn’t be much of a matter of controversy to note that Pornhub, or, more accurately, it’s parent company, Mindgeek, is […]
With the Citizenship referendum of 2004 again in the news, as the political “elite” plan ways to overturn that democratic decision, the current statistics available are worth looking at in the context of where the asylum process currently stands. A request under the Freedom of Information Act elicited the following data from the International Protection […]
The Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference has released a statement claiming people who refuse to take the Covid-19 vaccine could risk the lives of others.
Just when you think the woke Irish establishment has reached its lowest point, someone like Labour’s Aodhán O’Riordan always comes out of nowhere to prove you wrong. Their newest target? Teenage boys at school – a.k.a the most dangerous demographic in all of society. As reported in the Irish Times yesterday: “Single gender schools are […]
Jobpath is described by government as an approach to “employment activation” which caters mainly for people who are long-term unemployed (12 months or more) to assist them to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. Depending on where you live in the country it is delivered by one of two private companies – Seetec Limited […]