The plan by The UN Population Fund to host a recent government conference on “sexual and reproductive health” in Kenya backfired as Kenyans fought back attempts to export Western sexual norms into Africa. The UN Nairobi Summit was greeted by pro-life street protests and accusations of neo-colonialism. The Kenyan legislature forbade UNFPA access to the […]
ET is that you – the benign two-foot-tall creature from space with a long neck and big loveable eyes, who ended up in a family home in the Hollywood Hills against your original want? No, it’s Lisa Smith, an ex-member of the 27th Infantry Battalion and Air Corps, who served as a flight attendant to […]
More evidence, one might argue, that progress and compassion aren’t necessarily linear. More people died of drug-related causes last year than at any time in the history of the State, new figures cited in the Dáil show. 736 people in Ireland died last year of drug-related causes, compared to just 431 in 2004, an increase […]
November 21 marks the 99th anniversary of one of the most momentous days in modern Irish history. That date in 1920 fell on a Sunday, the first one in this country to be given the sombre appellation Bloody for it was the most violent day in the War of Independence. Thirty two people in all […]
Highlighting the experiences of a growing number of young women who were encouraged to ‘transition’ to male and now bitterly regret the decision, Joani Walsh lifts the lid on what is really going on in the trans world; young women complain that their underlying psychological issues were not addressed in the rush to get them […]
It’s buried away in paragraph 13 of Colm Keena’s report in the Irish Times today, which doesn’t really do this news justice. Another blow for liberty is about to be struck against the repression and cruelty of Catholic Ireland: “The commission will also look at the law on incest, which criminalises vaginal sexual intercourse between […]
Boris Johnson may well end up losing the British General election – but if he does, it won’t be because of his policy on immigration. For the last ten days he has hammered the opposition Labour Party for favouring an open immigration policy, with no restrictions on freedom of movement, while saying that if re-elected, […]
I would not be a huge admirer of former Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins but I will give credit where it is due. When I was working in Leinster House he was the only TD to object to the fawning reception given to a delegation from the Peoples Republic of China. He pointed out that […]
Former American President George H.W. Bush, as he was losing his campaign for re-election to Bill Clinton way back in 1992, famously complained that try though he might, he couldn’t compete with Clinton on “the vision thing”. In that election, Bush, a man who had served his country for fifty years and served with honour […]
At the 1934 congress of the All Union Communist Party (Bolshevik) up to 300 of the 1,200 delegates cast negative votes for Stalin in the election for the Central Committee. So paranoid and irate was Stalin that he had the offending delegates hunted down and murdered. Indeed, the majority of the delegates lost their lives […]
Dr Peter Boylan has been all over the media this week, flogging his new book in which he pats himself on the back for helping to legalise abortion. The tome, with the ominous title, In the Shadow of the 8th, is apparently hitting the market just in time for Christmas. Nothing proclaims the birth of Baby Jesus like a book […]
Brian Hayes, for those of you who have, perfectly understandably, forgotten, served as Minister of State at the Department of Finance from 2011 to 2014. He then headed off to Brussels for five years, where he served as an MEP, before choosing to retire from politics earlier this year and take a job as CEO […]