“We have no where to live” University authorities are raising the price of accommodation on campus by 12.5% – an increase students say they cannot afford. With housing and accommodation already a major issue in the capital, they say its putting university out of their reach #gript
A report released today from KBC bank indicates that first-time buyers need to be earning nearly €100,000 a year to secure a mortgage for a new home in Dublin. In the real world, that means at least 80% of Irish people are now priced out of the housing market in the capital. KBC’s study noted that the […]
One of the questions arising from our look at the role of cuckoo funds in the Irish property market is whether it is possible for states to curb their power and influence. Are there any countries which have been able to prevent international funds gaining a major foothold within their domestic housing market and pricing […]
The scale of the migrant crisis on the Greek border with Turkey is hard to put into context for an Irish audience. Already there are mumblings and grumblings of discontent in Ireland about the number of Asylum seekers, and controversy about their housing. 10,000 homeless people, when the country hit that milestone figure, was regarded […]
While some commentators believe Biden simply had a brain-freeze, others think the former Vice President, who is campaigning for the Democratic nomination for 2020, did not want to acknowledge God in his remarks.
State hospitals in South Africa have sterilized some pregnant HIV-positive women without their consent, according to a report by the Commission for Gender Equality. One of the 48 documented complainants, Bongekile Msibi, told the BBC that she was only 17 when her uterus was removed after she gave birth to a daughter. It was only 11 years later […]
Cassie Jaye, now 33, was a struggling actress in Hollywood in her late teens and early twenties. Her story sheds light on the Weinstein debacle. She describes how young beautiful actresses have contracts with publicists and now the publicists find them entry-level work with the rich and powerful of Los Angeles. A beautiful young woman […]
When France won the 2018 FIFA World Cup, a running joke developed that it was the African Union that had actually won. This was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact that more than half of the French team was made up of players of African heritage. “Not all of those folks look like Gauls to […]
A report by the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) in Strasbourg has revealed several conflicts of interest between judges at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and NGOs funded by George Soros.
As you may have noticed, the last three years or so has seen the UK consumed with the ins and outs, the minutiae and meanderings of some little thing called Brexit. Now, it seems as if it has really happened, and the UK has actually left the EU. Of course there is still a long […]
A video on the social media site TikTok has surfaced showing a drag queen performing a suggestive dance for a little girl. The video was posted by TikTok user Amelia Marino, and shows the little girl seated in the middle of the room surrounded by adults as the drag queen dances provocatively to club music […]
The Citizens’ Assembly on gender equality met just over a week ago. Regrettably, the session on “The family in the constitution and law”, was a prolonged attack on marriage and its special status in the Constitution. Prof. Siobhan Mullaly from NUI Galway, who spoke as an expert, should have explained why marriage deserves constitutional protection. […]