This week could prove to be a decisive one in the crisis over the future of Hong Kong. The Chinese National Peoples Congress is in session and will vote and approve measures to tighten Beijing’s police and intelligence powers over the heretofore semi autonomous region. The new Security Law extends Chinese powers to deal with […]
The lady standing at the podium was the second most senior civil servant in the Department of the Taoiseach, Elizabeth Canavan. She was there to deliver an important update on the Government’s advice to the public on the first day of the easing of the restrictions which had kept most of the country housebound for […]
Two years ago, like 723,000 other people, I voted No to removing the 8th amendment from our constitution. I believed that preborn babies have a right to life, that women deserve better than abortion, and that the result of the referendum was the most shameful day in Ireland’s history. I still do. And the last two years […]
Last Monday, the government briefed the public on how they were expected to behave during Phase One of the lifting of the Covid-19 restrictions. They urged people to be “disciplined” and specifically not to have picnics. “Please do your exercise and go home,” the assistant secretary at the Department of the Taoiseach, Liz Canavan, said. “If you’re […]
Donald Trump has several times referred to the possibility of using the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a preventative against coronavirus. Despite not being the only person to do so, and despite the fact that the use of the drug is being subject to many clinical trials, Trump’s statement, and his May 18 reference to taking […]
There are probably two things one might say about Mary Lou McDonald’s claim to the Sunday Independent that given the chance, she’d have been in the IRA, armed to the teeth and taking potshots at lads from Bolton who were unlucky enough to get posted to Northern Ireland. If you’re the anti-SF type, there’s the […]
When this emerged last night, there was at least the possibility that the public was being tricked by old footage from a pre-Covid summer, and that the Taoiseach was not, in fact, out yucking it up in the Phoenix Park yesterday while thousands have died in nursing homes and their families banned from attending the […]
Maybe the archbishop could give people a choice about attending Mass, if he is that enamoured with modern values.
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I don’t know if it is just myself and my incompetence with the interweb, but it seems to be more difficult with each day to find accurate statistics on the Covid 19 crisis. Few mainstream outlets, and certainly not official ones, provide easily accessible data on some of the key aspects of how the pandemic has […]
The global community united in side-splitting gales of laughter As I got older,” Ed West writes in his recent book Small Men on the Wrong Side of History: The Decline, Fall and Unlikely Return of Conservatism, “I came to accept all my political stances are effectively based on irrational feelings of annoyance about smugness and sanctimony.” […]
The strongest argument made at the last Presidential Election for the re-election of Michael D. Higgins was that he constituted a safe pair of hands. He is, after all, an experienced politician and statesman, who knows the constitution inside out. He has many years of experience in front-line politics, and is well suited to carrying […]