The Newstalk journalist whose reporting brought a false story about teachers in Presentation College Carlow to national attention has completely removed all reference to the story from her twitter account. Kacey O’Riordan, an IMRO-award winning reporter who works with Newstalk, Today FM, 98FM, and Spin 103.8FM, tweeted on Tuesday that “female students at a Carlow […]
Last weekend’s Bloody Sunday commemoration by the GAA was a nice reminder of the GAA’s enmeshment in the warp and weft of Ireland’s history. The events of Bloody Sunday 1920, and the name of Michael Hogan are part of the lore of Ireland and it was refreshing to see the GAA commemorate the event and its […]
The author, Dominik Michalik, is a Polish Citizen living in Dublin In recent days there has been a move by the European Union to tie funding for EU projects to the “rule of law”. This has been widely interpreted – including by Guy Verhofstadt – to mean denying funding to Poland and Hungary because of […]
The author, Kilian Foley Walsh, is a writer, and former President of Young Fine Gael In early November, I wrote a column for the Sunday Times about the Government’s decision to take the country to level 5. The long and short of my argument was that the powers that be take little notice of the economic and […]
Mounting evidence shows that pandemic-related lockdowns and restrictions have inflicted much more harm on younger people than the coronavirus itself. A new report reveals that nearly half of 18 to 24 year-olds are “showing at least moderate depressive symptoms,” and for many the depression is severe. Researchers at Harvard, Northeastern, Rutgers, and Northwestern universities conducted eight large survey […]
It would appear once again that it is an ill Pandemic that blows no favours. Last month it emerged that one of Ireland’s premier recruitment agencies, CPL Resources, had been given the contract by the Health Services Executive (HSE) to hire contact tracers as well as additional student and graduate nurses. The contract was valued […]
If I was a male teacher in Carlow Presentation College, I would lawyer up. The lazy, dishonest and vindictive reporting and commentary around wearing school uniforms in the school has caused male teachers to be described as “paedos” and “sleazebags” who needed to be attacked and confronted. What did the terrible male teachers of Carlow Pres do? Nothing, actually. […]
If you are a young, Irish, man, then this may come as a surprise to you, but your phone, laptop, and other communications devices are not 100% secure. Your phone could be stolen. Your Gmail could be hacked. Your personal data, as we are constantly warned, is vulnerable. Maybe your password is weak, or maybe […]
So as we all know, Ireland has been under lockdown for months now, and one of the consequences of that has been a complete shutdown of religious services. The last legal Mass held in the Republic of Ireland was almost two months ago at this stage, and in Dublin, it’s been even longer. Despite protests […]
This is just one story amongst many but it raises serious questions. A 90-year-old woman, Nancy Russell, chose euthanasia last month in Toronto. She was not suffering unbearable pain. She was just sick and tired of lockdown isolation in her nursing home. According to a report in CTVNews, “Residents eat meals in their rooms, have activities […]
By now, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll have heard the disgraceful story about rampant sexism – and borderline paedophilia – in a Carlow School. If you have been living under a rock, here’s how the Journal covered it tonight: THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE have signed a petition in protest over female students at […]
This week, we learned that doctors in Ireland describe the late-term abortions being carried out in Irish maternity hospitals as “stabbing a baby in the heart”. The study observing some of what is happening in regard to these abortions is every bit as shocking, disturbing and as heart-breaking as you’d imagine. But there was worse […]