Parents are expressing concern about a sex-ed course taught in schools around the country. Aids West, who run the sex-ed course, declined to provide a list of schools in which they operate. #gript
So far, no cause has been publicly announced for the fire that engulfed a parking garage in Douglas Shopping Centre at the weekend, which at present has left 100 vehicles stranded in the facility, many of them completely destroyed: MORNING AFTER: Crews are still at scene this morning in Douglas making up equipment and monitoring […]
I am not going to begin this piece with multiple qualifications, or unnecessary statements that I believe in the value and contributions of women. The message in the title and the vitality of women are self-evident. Women are great. But I am not a woman, and neither are half the population. I am sick, to […]
According to a new report issued this month by property website Daft.ie, the number of properties available for rent in the Republic of Ireland is now at its lowest level ever recorded (in a time series starting in 2006), while average rents in Dublin are now double what they were in 2011. These are just […]
Last week I wrote an article about the recent media response to a group of students, including myself, attending the Young America’s Foundation National Conservative Student Conference in Washington DC. In that article, I spoke about the media and political intolerance towards opinions or beliefs that stray outside the ‘acceptable’ set of ‘progressive’ left-wing social/economic […]
Only someone completely out of touch with reality could declare, as Simon Harris did, that cutting payments to people with disabilities is about equity. Yet that’s exactly what Minister Harris said when he axed the training grant those who attend rehabilitative training (RT). His clinching argument was that not everyone with disabilities received the payment […]
I’m currently sitting in a cafe beside a sea of breastfeeding mums, chatting away to each other, enjoying precious bonding time with their babies. It’s magical and because it’s so fleeting, I feel a pang of nostalgia, remembering the wonderful ten months I spent feeding my now four-year-old daughter. Suffice to say, they are minding […]
If it turned out that a significant number of your employees had said racist or bigoted things in the past, the crisis PR manual would usually tell you that the best approach is to apologise, and put out a statement saying that lessons had been learned. Maybe a few individuals could be sent on sensitivity […]
My colleague David Mullins revealed this morning that the National Women’s Council of Ireland received more from a state scheme to support groups that helped the disadvantaged than any other group did – despite the fact that the NWCI provides no services to the public. This should not be a surprise. The entire NGO sector […]
We wake to breaking news this Wednesday that Boris Johnson will ask the Queen to prorogue Parliament. This is, and let’s be clear about it, an attack on parliamentary democracy in Britain. Since the Glorious Revolution in the 17th century sovereignty in Britain has rested with the Crown in Parliament. The government needs to gain […]
Maria Steen on Liberal Intolerance: Liberals demand everyone be tolerant of their views and lifestyle. But this only works one way. Those who don’t agree with what is called the liberal progressive agenda not only are not tolerated, they are disrespected, demonised and worse.
It’s a brave new world for the IRS: taxing robots. Uncle Sam is padding the Treasury with millions of dollars to assess bots at the same time that corporations invest more in advanced technology and labor-saving machinery, according to experts. New “robot” taxes are expected to multiply in the coming decades as millions of Americans […]