The Government has announced ‘stringent new building regulations’ which will drive up the cost of new builds and renovations of existing builds. Under the new regulations all new builds will have to have an A2 energy rating and be ‘near-zero energy buildings’, and existing builds, undergoing major renovations, will have to be brought up to […]
A funny thing about the way the Irish media conducts its business is that it is perfectly capable of talking about two separate issues without ever allowing a connection to be drawn between the two, in case people might draw the right wrong conclusions. In Ireland now, the media is completely convinced of two things: […]
In the wave of disgust, horror and revulsion which has cascaded over us with the revelations of the barbaric treatment of Kevin Lunney (earlier this month), angry questions come spontaneously into our mind. Among those are questions about the very humanity of the perpetrators. We also ask what kind of punishment is appropriate for those […]
The following is a transcript of a speech given by the author at the UCD Law Society debate ‘This house would reelect Trump in 2020’. Good evening everyone. It’s a pleasure to be back in UCD debating again. I must say my experience of the political views of this society are very different from those […]
Will we also in time see taxpayer-funded walk-in centres for the victims of the trans ideology, offering cold comfort years after the irreversible, life-changing event?
If you search the website of the Irish Times for the phrase “Peak Oil” you will find that it appears only once in 2019, in a motoring column, and only then as a throwaway comparison to the Chinese car industry. It is the first time the phrase has appeared in Ireland’s most august newspaper since […]
Drugs are not dangerous because they are illegal; they are illegal because they are dangerous. A child who reaches age 21 without smoking, misusing alcohol, or using illegal drugs is virtually certain to never do so. Today, most children don’t use illicit drugs, but all of them, particularly the poorest, are vulnerable to misuse and […]
It seems that the people of Oughterard in Galway are not for turning. Despite orders from Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan that they should ‘step back’ and let the government ride rough-shed over the concerns of the community, they continue to protest against the establishment of a direct provision centre they see as unworkable and inhumane. This issue […]
1971 was a key year in the struggle by the Catholic nationalist population of the North of Ireland for democratic rights. A moderate campaign for basic democratic provisions had begun in the early 1960s and grew to be a mass movement led by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (founded in 1967). It had provoked […]
An expert witness has told a San Francisco court that where fetal hearts are used in research they are harvested from living babies. The shocking evidence was given by Dr. Theresa Deisher on the last day of the preliminary hearing of charges against undercover journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt who have been charged with […]
The definition of mercy killing is very elastic, as two recent cases in England demonstrate. In the first, 53-year-old Robert Knight was given a two-year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of his mother, 79-year-old June. June had Alzheimer’s disease and was being given end-of-life care in a nursing home. Robert found his mother’s suffering […]
We’ve only got twelve years left folks. The Amazon is on fire, the polar bears are all dead, and we are doomed, totally doomed, without even a good steak to get us through the apocalypse. I don’t know really why you’re headed to work today, or why all those Irish Times columnists and Greenpeace activists […]