Save it from what, exactly? Former RTE reporter Charlie Bird has made an impassioned plea about the future of the national broadcaster, saying it is time people ‘got up off their backsides’ to highlight its precarious state. He was commenting after the publication of a briefing document to Catherine Martin, the Minister for Media, which […]
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What do we learn from comparing the response and experience of different countries to Covid? Nothing useful I would argue. Perhaps when it’s all over we can start comparing and asking who made the best decisions, but this is not over; we aren’t even at half time. Which countries’ leaders have made the best decisions? […]
The cost to the HSE of reimbursing medicines and drug treatments now stands at about €2.5 billion annually. By way of contrast; back in 2014 the annual bill was about €1.8 billion. A large proportion of our present costs are routinely attributed to the growing population of older persons. But this is, at best, only […]
A grassroots group calling itself “Health Freedom Ireland” has raised over 22 thousand euros in less than a day as part of a campaign it is waging against the “mandatory” wearing of facemasks, as required by the Government in a number of locations. Health Freedom Ireland’s fundraiser was written by barrister Tracey O’Mahony (who has […]
There has, naturally, been quite a bit of chatter in recent days about the despicable, racist attack carried out by a gang of Dublin gurriers on an innocent east Asian woman last week. If you haven’t seen it, here it is. In this case, there is no doubt whatever that racism was a primary factor […]
John McIntyre had an interesting piece in the Connacht Tribune on Thursday. He was comparing the packed beaches at Salthill during the brief heat wave to the restrictions placed on GAA and other sports. The reductio ad absurdum of all this was perhaps the Garda enforced prevention of people climbing Croagh Patrick on Reek Sunday […]
Physicians and other healthcare professionals in the Dutch-speaking regions of Belgium who are willing to do late abortions would also support the legalisation of infanticide, according to a survey published in the journal Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica. “Almost nine out of ten respondents (89.1%) [who do late-term terminations] agree that in the event of a […]
Bernard-Henri Lévy believes that our response is diminishing our humanity. Earlier this year the coronavirus pandemic caught Bernard-Henri Lévy, France’s rock-star public intellectual, overseas. He had been reporting on the plight of Lesbos, the Aegean island crowded with refugees from Syria, and then of Bangladesh, which was attempting to cope not only with Covid-19 but […]
The problem with a charge of racism is that few people are prepared to challenge the strength of the evidence or the good faith of the party making the allegation. The media tend to report the incident in a way that is sympathetic to the ‘victim’. Sometimes, they make no pretence at all of sitting […]
It’s clear to anyone with eyes that, in recent decades, there has been a radical sea change in the moral direction of Western society. We see this everywhere we look. If recent opinion polls and studies are to be believed, everything that was once frowned upon in the public square – from casual sex, to […]
This is not Minneapolis. This is not Portland. This is Dublin. And this happened yesterday. Last month we had a Black Lives Matter march through the city. Last week we had our president sign into law new powers for vulture funds and banks. Yesterday we had black people dragged out of their home by men […]