Actor pushes for diversity in film whilst praising a convicted child rapist. Pierce Brosnan recently came out to say that he believes the next James Bond should be a women, that the #MeToo movement was ‘well needed’ in society, and that Roman Polanski, a convicted child rapist, is a ‘brilliant film maker’ and should be […]
Portugal has had an exceptional experience with emigration and immigration for several hundred years. As skilled mariners they set sail to open up world markets over 500 years ago. Portuguese settled in all continents from Brazil in the Americas all the way to East Timor in Asia including large parts of Africa in between. In […]
New data on the mental health of American college students shows a sombre trend. Rates of depression, anxiety, low flourishing, suicidal thinking and suicidal attempts have all worsened over the years 2007 to 2018, according to research by Jean Twenge and colleagues, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health. And it’s not all down to more reporting. […]
Once a staunch Fine Gael supporter, George Hook says he could not bring himself to vote for them in the last election. #gript
A slick new ad from the Government party right here, explicitly designed to stoke fears that Fianna Fáil would bankrupt the country if trusted with power: Everyone should watch this video. Has Fianna Fáil learned nothing? For more, see: https://t.co/f4uGy2PH0n #RecklessFF pic.twitter.com/hRIAb8BPSr — Fine Gael (@FineGael) September 8, 2019 The core criticism here is perfectly […]
On Saturday, 17 August last, I came across a Tweet from an Owen James in the UK which referred to a “blatant premeditated attack” by far-right activists, in which Mr. James alleged he was seriously assaulted. I do not know Mr. James so I cannot comment on whether this claim is true or not. However, this Tweet was shared […]
Sometimes when RTÉ News covers a protest it deems worthy, the camera work gives the game away. Amnesty’s cringe-worthy disco to protest against Mike Pence was a case in point this week. Despite plenty of advance notice of this marvellous opportunity to protest the awfulness of the Trump administration, almost no-one bothered to show up. […]
What will it take for modern feminists to give women some credit? Could they quit putting their own gender down for once and celebrate how great we are? Today’s feminists do us all a disservice by denying our achievements and successes to paint us as the underdog sex. You’d be forgiven for thinking we were a bunch of […]
It is a well-known and almost universally agreed fact in Ireland, or at least amongst the Irish establishment, that if you oppose the Irish Government’s Brexit strategy you are, de-facto, a soup-taking, west Brit, Boris-loving Tory who hates his own country and wants to see it ruined. The backstop, at this point, is holy writ. […]
According to analysis from the Charity Commission in the UK, in 2018 chief executive of Marie Stopes International Simon Cooke was paid £434,000, ‘after receiving a bonus that doubled his pay’; this takes him way above the £178,000 average of Britain’s biggest charity chiefs, but Mr Cooke ‘was awarded a performance-related bonus’ equal to his […]
Mandarin-speaking Mainlanders are drowning the city-state’s Cantonese culture
The elderly are an untapped resource – and so are the young.