Every person committed to upholding Constitutional freedoms and every person of faith should opposed the Goverment’s draconian and provocative Regulation ( SI 171 of 2021) as an assault on religious freedom. Archbishop Eamon Martin has done a great service not alone to his flock but to democracy in pushing back strongly against this disingenuous and […]
Fine Gael’s youth wing has passed a motion calling for EU citizens to be able to vote in Irish elections once they’ve lived in Ireland for 5 or more years – a majorly bad idea any way you slice it. “Young Fine Gael calls on the government to hold a referendum allowing for EU citizens […]
The good news here, you might say, is that at least Paschal Donohoe seems to envisage Ireland being fully out of lockdown by 2023. He’s going to get into hot water with the Zero Covid people, who markedly do not share that assumption. But that’s sort of where the good news ends: Paschal Donohoe said […]
In recent weeks, as we’ve covered the effect of Texas lifting its facemask mandate, and all Covid lockdown restrictions, some people who are cautious about the results have said “but what if Texas is just an outlier”? It’s forty days now since the facemask mandate was lifted. Cases remain…. Stunningly low: But it’s not just […]
Irish is officially the first language of the State, but it rarely feels that’s actually the case. Despite the fact that 40% of our citizens are able to speak Irish, while 21% of people, according to the last Census, speak Irish daily outside the education system, Gaeilge rarely seems to be afforded the respect it […]
The Super League could threaten the “football pyramid” (a new, trendy term), but forgive me for thinking the pyramid was only ever scaled by Big Money clubs anyway.
Irish political leaders today often like to think of themselves as very moderate, modern people. They clearly consider themselves to be very middle-of-the-road and balanced when it comes to their policies. As an Táinaiste Leo Varadkar himself recently said: “Speaking at the launch of a book on former Fine Gael female politicians, the party leader […]
The calculations being made by our political leaders and health officials are clear: religion is non-essential and about the same level of importance as getting your nails done.
Fine Gael Councillor David McManus has lashed out at the opposition parties for allowing construction to stay closed – even though it was his party who closed it. Tweeting during an RTÉ Prime Time segment on how lack of housing supply has driven up house prices nationwide, McManus, who is also Deputy Mayor of South […]
What’s ironic about this, of course, is that the apology is for the killing of Lord Mountbatten, who, as Lord High Admiral and First Sea Lord, was probably a legitimate military target, if you subscribe to the view that the IRA was fighting a war, as McDonald presumably does. Where’s the apology for killing Nicholas […]
Here is one of the most extraordinary stories to come out of Ireland since the beginning of the pandemic, and one, you can be sure, that won’t get much media attention anywhere else. In fact, it’s buried three quarters of the way through this Irish Times article: The court also heard evidence from Dr Darina […]
Last week, Gript highlighted the fact that senior Irish doctors are undergoing “international training” in a late-term abortion method known as Dilation and Evacuation, with a view to carrying out such abortions in this country. During the abortion referendum of 2018, the public was given repeated public assurances that this kind of abortion would […]