Megan Youngren will become the first transgender athlete to compete at the US Olympic marathon trials on February 29th, after qualifying for the trials at the California International Marathon in December.
I know very little about Verona Murphy, the independent candidate who just took a seat in Wexford in Election 2020, apart from the fact that she was unceremoniously dumped by Fine Gael when she made some remarks about immigration that caused a media furore. In fairness to Murphy, any comment on immigration tends to cause a furore in Ireland, since […]
Sinn Féin members have been told that they need to maintain “maximum unity and cohesion” as they enter post-election talks aimed at forming a government. They have named a public negotiation team, but members have been told that others of the “core group” of the party are involved. The final election results present an interesting […]
How should the new Sinn Fein Government spend the €14.3billion Apple Tax windfall, as they’ve repeatedly promised? #gript
During Election 2020, we heard a lot about serious concerns regarding the State’s inability to pay pensions in the future, yet very few of those discussions noted how anti-family this country has become. On RTE’s Prime Time a couple paying €1700 rent a month and doing a 12-hour day including a long commute said they […]
One of the benefits of Sinn Fein’s electoral triumph is that the Irish public will soon see ideas beloved of the left for a generation put, at along last, into practice. For two decades now, for example, the Irish people have been told that if Sinn Fein was in Government, US troops would have to […]
In Ireland, the pundit class moves like a herd. Nobody wants to get too far away from the conventional wisdom, even when the conventional wisdom settles around a nonsense idea, as it is today. Fianna Fáil sources are now telling people that the party does not want to do business with Sinn Fein, and is […]
The RTE presenter couldn’t resist it, on Sunday afternoon. It might have been nearly six months after the incident, and it might have been in the shadow of several much bigger stories, but this was the opportunity she had been waiting for. “I hear you did well in the Oughterard boxes” was the opening line […]
All fifteen of the TDS who voted against legalising abortion in 2018 have retained their Dáil seats in Election 2020. Many of them defied the predictions of pundits and pollsters who forecast their seats would be in trouble. Some had to deal with constituencies that had been redrawn, or their previous party pouring huge resources into the […]
The annual World Economic Forum in Davos brought together representatives from government and business to deliberate how to solve the worsening climate and ecological crisis. The meeting came just as devastating bush fires were abating in Australia. These fires are thought to have killed up to one billion animals and generated a new wave of climate refugees. Yet, as with the COP25 climate talks […]
It would not be an exaggeration to describe this general election as one of the most extraordinary in the history of the state. The only comparable one I can think of is the 1948 election which led to the participation of Clann na Phoblacta in government but their advance was nothing compared to that of […]
A Donegal man aroused anger online after he claimed to have destroyed his grandmother’s polling card and hid her walking frame to prevent her from voting for her preferred candidate. My granny was going to vote for Peter Casey or that other racist guy so I ripped up her polling card and hid her walking […]