In a move that will have critics and allies of RTÉ alike questioning the journalistic standards of the station Dr Peter Boylan has made the claim that Jon Williams, the managing director of RTE News, and presenter Claire Byrne made a pledge to him that he would be given a right of immediate response to […]
If there’s one thing that UN officials are good at, it’s wrapping their extreme, agenda-driven ideologies in an official-sounding guise. Last week, at the United Nation’s CERD19 convention in Geneva, Jamaican academic Verene Shepherd pressured the Irish government to rapidly implement new legislation to combat what she called “hate speech”. According to the Irish Centre […]
There was a real danger there, for a while, that Tubridy and Co would have to take significant pay cuts to account for the fact that not enough people are watching RTE, but thanks to the generosity of the Fine Gael government, on your behalf, crisis averted: RTÉ is set to receive €50 million in […]
“Housing”, we are told by the Irish left, “is a human right”. It’s an interesting statement, in that it is both ambitious, and hugely limiting. On the one hand, there clearly is a human right to shelter, and not to be left exposed to the elements. On the other hand, a “house” is not a […]
The Department of Justice’ public consultation on reviewing the legislation on hate speech comes to a close on Friday the 13th. (You can make a submission or answer a survey here) No more suitable day for the shambles of a process that it has been. In parallel, the Irish Human Rights Commissioner Emily Logan stated […]
France is experiencing a 6th day of strikes against upcoming pension reform initiated by President Emmanuel Macron. Over the last week, trains have been cancelled, metro lines shut down completely, and a third of schools in Paris closed. Yet, despite the disruption, the strikes have a high level of public support. People are upset because […]
One of the comfortable things about observing the British election is that whatever the outcome, the impacts on the life of the Irish viewer will be largely insignificant. If the Conservatives win a majority, a Brexit deal will pass which is acceptable to the Irish Government. If Mr. Corbyn ends up as Prime Minister, there […]
Picture the scene, if you will, five years from now, in the Dáil. Taoiseach Simon Harris is on his feet in the chamber, trying to defend his Government’s decision to end the rent freeze legislation introduced in 2019. For the past five years, rents have been frozen in place, giving, according to Harris, “valuable breathing […]
As everyone knows, mostly because it’s the subject of endless, fawning news reporting, former President Mary McAleese has been busy bashing the Catholic Church recently while also being nominated as Chancellor of Trinity College. She might have been surprised, then, to see an article in the University Times take her to task in the most strident […]
New research published by the Irish Heart Foundation and the Irish Cancer Society shows that these organisations are not interested in evidence but are rather interested in engaging is some sort of bizarre ideological crusade against vaping. The research, which was launched this week by Minister Simon Harris, is of such poor quality, and so […]
You’d best get the weekly shop done today if you want fresh stuff in for the rest of the week, because SuperValu might not have their normal range of fresh food tomorrow: Day 4 of the @IFAmedia beef price protest. A blockade has been placed outside the Musgraves distribution centre in Kilcock this morning pic.twitter.com/n0CP96or5o […]
How many of you are thinking of getting your tween a cell phone for Christmas? Because we all know that in the eyes of a tween or teen, a shiny new cell phone under the Christmas tree is even better than Santa. And the pressure is on: everyone at school has a cell phone nowadays. […]