On Saturday, the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland (ASTI) decided at a meeting of its national executive to ballot its members on strike action. Although part of this concerns the on-going and legitimate concern over the status and pay grades of some teachers, it is evident that the main issue is the re-opening of […]
A local residents group in Donegal claim they have not been given a “fair say” after planning permission for a new development was allegedly passed without sufficient consultation.
The first thing that any new British Prime Minister has to do, upon taking office, is to pen “the letter of last resort”. We have no idea what’s in it, but we know what it is: Instructions given, in a sealed envelope, to the commanders of Her Majesty’s nuclear submarines, only to be opened in […]
It was a big weekend in media land for lengthy pieces about the apparently dangerous “rise of the far right” in Ireland. The Journal, the Irish Times, the Irish Independent and the Examiner (to a lesser estent) featured couple-of-thousand-word plus pieces this weekend claiming to be detailed investigations into the phenomenon, and its apparent connection […]
Every year since at least 2005, in the run up to Halloween, the Gardai roll out Operation Tombola. The main aim of the Operation is to disrupt, seize and prevent the supply of illegal fireworks and to mitigate the associated public disorder and anti-social behaviour that usually goes with such sales. As the law currently […]
The University of Chicago English Department has announced that it “is accepting only applicants interested in working in and with Black Studies” – meaning that students who wish to study english there will also have to take a course that many say draws its inspiration from the Black Lives Matter movement that includes the dismantling of the […]
“Climate dries the [wood] fuels out & extends the fire season but its not the cause of the intensity of the fires. The cause of that is fire suppression and the existing debt of wood fuel.” — Malcolm North, US Forest Service A red sky glowers over California as fires rage out of control. Recent […]
The death at 87 of United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has added another dimension to the final weeks of the Presidential election in that country. The liberal media’s pot stirring over possible legal challenges if the vote does not go their way has begun. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has already said […]
For those just landed from Mars, us women have a cervix – which is the lowest part of the uterus in the reproductive system of human females. Again, in case you’re just meeting Earthlings for the first time, human females are women and having a cervix is part of what makes you a woman. This biological reality is being […]
Every so often, a headline catches me off guard. Like this one, from the Catholic News Agency earlier this month: “Only 18 babies with Down syndrome born in Denmark in 2019.” This isn’t at all shocking. I’ve written about the ongoing destruction of children with Down syndrome by abortion for years. Many pro-life activists have been shouting themselves […]
The recent passing of yet more “emergency” legislation under the Covid-19 exemption has led to some criticism with regard to the implications that it might have for those in danger of home repossession if their mortgage has been sold to one or other of the ubiquitous vulture funds. Many billions of such debt has already […]
On the one hand, good. There’s not much point keeping a law on the books that’s been transparently flouted by most EU countries for years: EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday that proposed new migration reforms would replace the so-called “Dublin Regulation”, which governs which member state handles a new arrival’s asylum […]