With the digitalisation and globalisation of the world, we now have countless companies who have truly global power. Power which, we have just discovered, they are willing and able to deploy for explicitly political goals.
No ‘balanced regional development’
Let cooler heads reign
No matter what your perspective is on the Russia-Ukraine invasion politically, one thing is inarguable: the human cost of this conflict is enormous. This is clearly one of the most cut and dry cases of a refugee crisis we have seen in Europe in years. While the legitimacy of many alleged asylum claims to Europe […]
If this happened to an Irish embassy in, say, Tel Aviv, how would Ireland react? With outrage, one might suspect.
In 2020, shortly before the US election, then-president Donald Trump said that if Joe Biden was elected, fuel prices would “skyrocket.” The comments were made during a campaign rally on November 3rd, 2020, with Trump bragging about low fuel prices under his administration. “We have more oil than anybody, OK?” he said. “It’s an incredible […]
President Zelensky, the toast of the western world, is not a perfect Democrat. But we cannot be blinded by contrarianism.
When the National Women’s Council of Ireland threw a feminist event over the weekend, with the lineup of high profile groups and individuals involved, you’d assume we were all in for a barnstormer. I mean, how could the event not draw a big crowd? The NWCI themselves say it’s been planned since March 2021 – […]
False hope
It is hard to see any case, at this stage, other than that this whole thing has been a monumental strategic disaster for the Russians, from start to finish
A woman was heckled out of a feminist rally in Dublin because she held a sign which is reported to have said “biology is not bigotry.” The event took place outside the Dáil at the National Women’s Council of Ireland’s Women’s Day event, which was widely promoted by various NGOs and political parties. The event […]
According to AA Ireland, petrol and diesel costs are at record highs as Applegreen warns of massive increases in fuel costs for consumers. The comments come as fuel prices soar across Europe due to a variety of factors. These include inflation, supply chain issues from the Covid lockdown, government charges like Carbon Tax, and overreliance […]