From Thursday every pub and restaurant you go into will be forced to collect a dossier of your time with them. They’ll take your name, your number, the time you were there, what you ate, and, presumably, a rather good explanation of why you ordered your steak well done. They’ll keep that list for the […]
The satirical French magazine, Charlie Hebdo, has republished their now-famous cartoon of Muhammad that caused them to become the victims of a fatal Islamic terrorist attack back in 2015. The decision to republish the cartoon came the day before a major trial in France involving 14 alleged accomplices to the killers, who are believed to […]
Jessica Krug, is her name, and she’s spent basically her whole adult life pretending to be a black woman when, in fact, she was just, well, overly fond of the old sun-beds. Here’s her apology, which to be honest, is much more entertaining than the story itself: To an escalating degree over my adult life, […]
I have known Phil Hogan for more than 40 years and I remain astonished at his rise but even more amazed that he has fallen just when his presence was useful to the country. He was not Jacques Delors but an Irish commissioner was likely to be far more useful to Ireland at the Brexit […]
The curve has well and truly been flattened in terms of hospitalizations, ICU referrals and deaths, with confirmed cases only rising now because of increased testing capacity.
The European Asylum Support Office has just published its first Country of Origin Information (COI) Report on Venezuela, and the news is not good. What is genuinely startling however is the scale of the attempted exodus that has taken place. The EASO observations on the Report find that: “the deterioration of the political, security and […]
Here’s what the publicans, from Monaghan, have to say for themselves (emphasis mine): For months pub owners across Ireland have borne the costs of this pandemic, and we have done so largely without public complaint. But that ends today. “Across Europe, the pubs are open. Pubs in Northern Ireland can serve outdoors. As publicans in […]
It would appear that the plans to build a new city in Ireland, as reported here last on July 28, are not quite as dead in the water as some suggested. The Hong Kong property developer Ivan Ko of the Victoria Harbour Group is to visit Ireland within the next few weeks to focus on […]
A new study has found that 70% of unintended pregnancies end in abortion in countries where it is broadly legal, while in countries where abortion is restricted, this happens only in 50% of the cases. A new multi-authored study published by The Lancet medical journal investigated the occurrence of abortion in unintended pregnancies world-wide. […]
Back in June, the Gardaí reported that there had been 93 incidents of ‘assault’ recorded which involved intentionally spitting or coughing at a Garda member. It is little wonder then that a survey of garda rank and file members found that 87% welcomed the introduction of so called ‘spit hoods’ as an additional layer […]
The Democratic and Republican conventions presented two vastly different perceptions of America, with such little overlap, or agreement on basic narrative points, that each side seems to be past the point of acknowledging a basic validity in the other. The Republicans pinned the violence of the past 90 days on the mayors of the Democrat-run […]
The interplay of trauma, existential insecurity, and general woe, and the story of mankind’s belief in another life, in God or in gods, seems to persist throughout the ages. We have the Great Flood accounts in both Gilgamesh and in The Bible — given in one as a story of man’s correction by his gods, […]