Prominent philosopher Gerard Casey has released a video on the new Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2020 and how it will create a new category of “thought crime”. Professor Casey is a former head of the School of Philosophy in UCD and he is the author of several books, including ‘Zap: Free Speech and Tolerance […]
After all, what parent wants their son or daughter sending, seeing or sharing nude pictures and sex videos?
“In a time of deceit”, said George Orwell, “telling the truth is a revolutionary act”. So in that spirit, here’s the truth: Every single person reading this article was born either male, or female, and will be male, or female, until they die. Not one of you chose your gender, any more than you chose […]
As Shannon noted a few days ago, the upcoming Chinese census may spur the Communist Party there to further relax its family planning laws or even to abolish them altogether. This is to be welcomed from a human rights point of view, and is perhaps to be expected from a demographic point of view. The previous […]
The case of Dublin businessman Richard O’Halloran, who is being held against his will in China, raises several serious issues. O’Halloran is a director of a Chinese aircraft leasing company, CALS, and has been refused permission to leave the country since last March due to a court case involving the owner of CALS, Min Jiedong. […]
Those who fail to understand history are doomed to repeat it. For several months now, Gino Kenny TD of People Before Profit has been attempting to rush an assisted suicide bill through the Dáil. Kenny has repeatedly told the public that his bill – dubbed the “Dying with Dignity” bill – is an attempt to […]
Well, this will cause a ruckus: #BREAKING: QANTAS CEO confirms that proof that you've been vaccinated for COVID-19 will be compulsory for international air travel onboard his aircraft. #9ACA pic.twitter.com/dhk3Hsnxn9 — A Current Affair (@ACurrentAffair9) November 23, 2020 QANTAS is just one airline, of course, and there’s no guarantee that others will follow – but […]
On June 11th, 2004, sixteen and a half years ago, the Irish people went to the polls to vote on the 27th amendment to the constitution. The proposal in front of them was to strip from the constitution the automatic right to citizenship conferred on every child born on Irish soil. Instead, prior to the […]
This weekend, the Irish people were treated to an extraordinary tale of woe, courtesy of Kitty Holland in the Irish Times. Steady yourselves before reading this one. As they say on the news, this report contains details that some readers might find…. upsetting: Social tenants in a luxury apartment complex in Dublin say they are […]
An expert on women’s issues has rung alarm bells about the potential for eugenics in China’s latest “five-year plan”. Columbia professor Leta Hong Fincher told a panel of China watchers at a virtual conference by the Center for International and Strategic Studies last week. “What caught my eye was that they actually use specific language saying that […]
According to Fergus Finlay, writing in The Irish Examiner, many ‘attention seeking’ journalists are getting the ‘woke’ phenomenon all wrong. Basically it’s a great force for awareness raising and we should not be unduly disturbed by the odd bit of ‘silliness’ when some of the overly woke push political correctness too far. For someone who […]
In March of 2019, a couple attending the National Maternity Hospital were told by doctors that their baby had a condition which meant he would not live after birth. The couple say they were then led towards having an abortion and told not to wait for the results of a second test to confirm the baby […]