Perhaps the most ironic section of the new deal between the DUP and Sinn Fein to run the British part of Ireland is the following: 25.The parties affirm the need to respect the freedom of all persons in Northern Ireland to choose, affirm, maintain and develop their national and cultural identity I would imagine that getting […]
Over at TheJournal.ie, they’re running one of their regular reader polls, just like Gript, and many other news websites do. Today, it’s on the subject of vaping, and whether so called “sweet flavoured” vaping juices should be banned. Predictably, support for banning the stuff vastly outweighs support for letting people do what they want, 63% […]
“The Dáil will return next week”, announced the Taoiseach this morning, which is slightly different from his position yesterday, which was that the Dáil might not, in fact, return next week, because Fine Gael is so ready for a General Election. It’s good that the national parliament is returning for at least one more week, […]
Last week, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties were excitedly tweeting that they were preparing a report for Simon Harris which could help to ban pro-life vigils at abortion centres. Now they have reported that they have sent their “investigation” to the Minister, and issued a call for immediate action on the issue, seeking to make […]
Finally, a real alternative to RTE: “A mysterious radio signal is coming from a nearby galaxy, scientists say. And that galaxy looks surprisingly like our own, the astronomers have announced. The newly discovered source, named FRB 180916, is only half-a-billion light years from Earth and much nearer than other bursts that have been found in the […]
In his 1845 book The Condition of the Working Class in England, Friedrich Engels excoriated those wealthy philanthropists who placed themselves “before the world as mighty benefactors of humanity when they give back to the plundered victims the hundredth part of what belongs to them.” Back then charity was the preserve of austere Victorians and […]
Peadar Toibin wrote movingly and well on this website yesterday about his principled objections to the Government’s now-cancelled commemoration for members of the Royal Irish Constabulary and Dublin Metropolitan Police: “There are few families in Ireland that do not have mixed heritage. One of my Grandparents was a member of Cumann na mBan, while another […]
Lost in the Christmas festivities was another tragic episode in Nigeria’s ongoing strife between Islamic militants and the Christian population of a deeply divided country ravaged by lawlessness.
In an article in the Irish Times in February 2014[1], Fintan O’Toole reviewed the marriage rates in Ireland on foot of a CSO annual report that had been recently published. He was motivated to write the article in response to a press release from the Iona Institute some months earlier which had ended with the […]
There’s nothing more terrifying than fire. And Australia is being burnt to a crisp. Across the continent, particularly in the coastal region on the eastern seaboard between Sydney and Melbourne, the scenes are apocalyptic. In the air, gigantic plumes of smoke drift thousands of kilometres across the Tasman Sea, covering glaciers in New Zealand with […]
On 27 November 1920 Galway brothers Patrick and Harry Loughnane were arrested on their family farm by the Royal Irish Constabulary’s Auxiliary Division. The men were locally prominent republicans and the RIC was determined to exact revenge on them for an earlier IRA ambush. A few days after their arrest, the Loughnane brothers’ bodies were […]
President Jair Bolsonaro has vetoed the adherence of Brazil to the United Nations’ Agenda 2030, a wide-ranging social, economic and political program that some fear would lead to a global government.