When respected scientific experts sitting on prestigious governmental advisory committees warned citizens early last year that the only way to protect themselves against Covid-19 was to shut down their businesses and stay at home until public health officials deemed it safe to come out again, most complied, even at great personal and economic cost. The […]
“Endless Russophobia”, she says, stalks the halls of the European Parliament in Brussels. More on that in a moment. But first, watch the whole thing, and pay close attention to what she says about Putin’s recently imprisoned political foe, Alexei Navalny: Is Navalny, as she says, a “vicious, anti-immigrant, racist”? Well, on the […]
A bit of a hangover from yesterday, which we didn’t get around to, but worth writing about anyway. Honestly, Mary, you’d be so much happier if you just left the Church and became a Protestant. Or a Muslim. Or a Hindu. Literally anything really. Why is she doing this to herself? The Catholic Church’s failure […]
‘It’s not the end of the world… It’s only three hours on the plane’ I remember myself telling my parents when I started thinking of moving to Ireland. I have always wanted to live here, ever since I was seven years old and heard for the first time Sinead O’Connor singing on the LP my […]
If you are one of the ‘too Irish’ citizens of this “ethnostate” then perhaps you might do well to give the Irish National Integration Conference a miss. It is running all week from Monday to Thursday and the organisers in the Immigrant Council of Ireland have been kind enough to place the proceedings on their site if […]
People with disabilities and their families have reacted with shock and anger to a report which has found that people with learning disabilities in Britain were told they would not be resuscitated if they were taken ill with Covid-19. Mencap, a charity which advocates for people with learning disabilities, said that even in January 2021, it was still receiving […]
At the first conference of Stakhanovites in November 1935, Stalin declared to his audience that “Life has improved, Comrades. Life has become more joyous.” For himself and the thieves, psychopaths and rapists in his inner circle, it certainly had. For the millions living in abject poverty and those struggling to survive the aftermath of the […]
If there is a word to sum up the political zeitgeist in Ireland over the past decade, it must surely be “compassion”. The 2010’s were the decade when official Ireland set out, flanked by an armada of well-funded NGO’s and supported by a media thirsty for change, to right the wrongs of the past. In […]
The number of registered births in China has dropped for the fourth consecutive year, despite the nation’s new two-child policy. Figures from the Public Security Ministry released this week showed 10.04 million births were registered in 2020, a staggering 15% drop from 2019. The sex ratio was 1.11 boys for every girl, which suggests that […]
During an otherwise sleepy Thursday afternoon Dail debate on the 2021 Commencement Order for the Dumping at Sea Act 1996, several rather explosive pieces of information were put on the public record. It was by no means original information mind, given that the issues involved have been thrown backwards and forwards since Brian Lenihan […]
Balance has been restored. Irish politicians have fallen over themselves to pay obsequious homage to the new leader of what’s left of the Free World in 2021. Our Taoiseach is preparing to stare danger in the face by engaging in non-essential international travel to meet him, while when asked if he was happy to see […]
A fascinating clip from the United States, over the weekend, which should raise real questions about the management of Covid in Irish nursing homes: https://twitter.com/ZacBissonnette/status/1360982497769775104 In Florida, says that state’s Republican Governor (and, by the by, future Presidential candidate), Ron DeSantis, the medical experts told him that if he kept patients from nursing homes in […]