The big news this morning is that the Social Democrats have decided that the time is ripe for a vote of no confidence in Eoghan Murphy: “THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATS are to table a motion of no confidence in housing minister Eoghan Murphy. Party co-leader Róisín Shortall confirmed this morning that the party will publish the […]
The Irish Examiner reports that the Comptroller and Auditor General is to reveal that Katherine Zappone, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, returned €60 million to the exchequer last year. This beggars belief. We are constantly told that the persistent failure of Minister Zappone’s department to protect and provide for vulnerable children is because […]
This business of demanding that social media censor every opinion that we don’t like just isn’t going to end well. Here’s another press hit this morning for the Minister for blaming everybody but himself for Health: “HEALTH MINISTER SIMON Harris is to meet with a number of social media companies today to discuss the spread […]
Parsing a non-story in Saturday’s Irish Independent tells us a sad and genuine story about the state of the conscience of our nation. But it needs parsing. The paper reported on what was essentially a non-issue – they as good as said so, but still had to give us about 700 words – about the […]
An interesting question posed on twitter this morning by David Quinn: Caroline West of DCU wants children taught 'porn literacy'. Question; does she share the view of some researchers in this area that there is such a thing as 'ethical porn', or does she believe porn is bad, per se? #todaysor — David Quinn (@DavQuinn) […]
While Marx as the Mystic Meg of the inevitability of socialism has long since lost any credibility outside of the unreconstructed far left, and people who have never actually read him for the most part, he is still an important figure. The first volume of Capital stands as an excellent work of economic history. It […]
Local elections in Hong Kong, the first since the wave of protests began six months ago, have seen massive gains by pro-democracy candidates. Hong Kong media reports suggest that 17 of the 18 local councils now have a majority of pro-democracy councillors. Nearly three million people votes – doubling the turnout in the last election […]
The Law Society Gazette recently reported on a new phenomenon in Irish jails, where “male-bodied” prisoners can now be housed with women – even when said prisoners have a record of sexual assault against women. There hasn’t been a peep from Irish feminists about this. Clearly the new obsession with trans rights now takes priority over […]
Most people who use public transport with any degree of regularity will at one point or another have witnessed or even experienced some degree of anti-social behaviour. Whether it is straight out violence, aggression, intimidation of drivers or other passengers, there are plenty of stories too tell. Two years ago I experienced the most uncomfortable […]
Panti Bliss and his friend Rosita Sweetman are auctioning off statues depicting Mary as a feminist goddess, something I’m sure Mary would dispute given her self-identification as the “handmaid of the Lord”
We all know that the current Minister for Children, Katherine Zappone, has an almost missionary zeal when it comes to spreading the ideology of abortion under the euphemisms of ‘reproductive rights’ and ‘reproductive justice.’ The Minister’s latest jaunt to push this agenda, at the taxpayers’ expense, was her trip to the Nairobi Summit in Kenya […]
The 8th amendment, which protected the right to life of both mother and child, has sadly been removed from our Constitution, but the media misreporting continues. This week, the HSE apologised to the family of a pregnant woman who had been kept on life support in December 2014 against her family’s wishes even though there […]